filebeat5.yml template requires setting empty partition option for Kafka output

[spectrumjade]

I'm in the process of deploying Filebeat v5 with Kafka output. I get an error if I do not provide a partition option to the Kafka configuration.

This is my current configuration:

class { '::filebeat':
  manage_repo => false,
  registry_file => '/var/lib/filebeat/registry',
  outputs => {
    'kafka' => {
      'enabled' => true,
      'hosts' => $kafka_hosts,
      'topic' => '%{[type]}',
      'compression' => 'gzip',
      'ssl' => {
        'enabled' => true,
      }
    },
  },
}

With this configuration, however, I receive the following compilation failure:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template filebeat/filebeat5.yml.erb:
  Filepath: /etc/puppet/environments/test/module_repos/filebeat/templates/filebeat5.yml.erb
  Line: 276
  Detail: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
 at /etc/puppet/environments/test/module_repos/filebeat/manifests/config.pp:29 on node test
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

The following configuration is necessary to get the template to compile:

class { '::filebeat':
  manage_repo => false,
  registry_file => '/var/lib/filebeat/registry',
  outputs => {
    'kafka' => {
      'enabled' => true,
      'hosts' => $kafka_hosts,
      'topic' => '%{[type]}',
      'compression' => 'gzip',
      'partition' => {},
      'ssl' => {
        'enabled' => true,
      }
    },
  },
}

Having a dangling empty config option is rather non-elegant however. Can this be fixed such that I can remove the partition element?

[pcfens]

Thanks. I pushed a fix up to the forge as 0.8.5.