Q. How to remove keys on merge?

[Richard Cunningham]

Expected Behaviour

If I am setting a key/object in my top level globals.yaml at a specific lower level, I want to be able to remove that key (e.g. not just set the value: null but actually del). For example:

global.yaml

modules_to_deploy:
  module1: <config-mod1>
  module2: <config-mod2>
  module3: <config-mod3>

then in my special_dr_site.yaml:

modules_to_deploy:
  module2: #remove

After merging, for my special_dr_site, I want the resulting yaml to be:

modules_to_deploy:
  module1: <config-mod1>
  module3: <config-mod3>

Actual Behaviour

Not sure if/how this can be achieved?

Reproduce Scenario (including but not limited to)

simply try the simple example above.

Steps to Reproduce

see above example

Platform and Version

Any

[Daniel Coman]

You can manipulate the resulting yaml file with these two cmd arguments:

--filter FILTER       keep these keys from the generated data
--exclude EXCLUDE     exclude these keys from generated data

[Richard Cunningham]

Thanks @danielcoman. This doesn't quite fit our use case. We are using himl as part of an Ansible dynamic inventory script. We could change the processing settings but what we are looking for the ability to to set some flag in the YAML being processed to indicate that key should be deleted.