Pillar input always parsed to string

[simonclausen]

It seems that the generated logstash configs are always generated with the pillar input being put into strings ("").

For example

  outputs:
    -
      plugin_name: elasticsearch
      cond: 'if [type] == "test"'
      workers: 8
      index: 'test-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}'
      flush_size: 5000
      hosts:
        - 127.0.0.1:9200

Is parsed into:

output {
    if [type] == "test" {
        elasticsearch {
            index => "test-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
            workers => "8" 
            hosts => [
                "127.0.0.1:9200"
            ] 
            flush_size => "5000"
        }
    }
}

In this case logstash will fail overwriting the default of the "workers" setting:

:message=>"Pipeline aborted due to error", :exception=>#<ArgumentError: comparison of String with 1 failed>

This is on logstash-2.3.3; I don't know if logstash previously has been able to overwrite int setting inputs with string.