Output of tuples is wrong

[arnisoph]

$ salt-call --versions
           Salt: 2014.1.0-8580-gf9ec0bf
         Python: 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
         Jinja2: 2.6
       M2Crypto: 0.21.1
 msgpack-python: 0.1.10
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6
        libnacl: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.10
          ioflo: Not Installed
          PyZMQ: 2.2.0
           RAET: Not Installed
            ZMQ: 2.2.0

(self-built Debian packages: https://github.com/bechtoldt/salt/tree/develop-arbe (6be051f))

foo.sls (Pillar):

#!py

def run():
  u = tuple(("test", 1, True, 3, {"s": "case"}, 5))
  foo = {"foo": u}

  return foo

$ salt-call pillar.get foo --out=raw
{'host123': ['test', 1, True, 3, {'s': 'case'}, 5]}

I think the output should be:

{'host123': ('test', 1, True, 3, {'s': 'case'}, 5)}

[arnisoph]

The same is true when using the default renderer:

#!jinja|yaml

foo:
  - test
  - 1
  - True
  - 3
  - s: case

$ salt-call pillar.get foo --out=raw
{'local': ['test', 1, True, 3, {'s': 'case'}]}

[arnisoph]

The motivation behind the ticket is that I need to create configuration files for a software which requires pure python syntax (with a very weird way of parsing them). So a python tuple needs to be look like a python tuple with these parentheses '(' and ')'.

The custom python() Jinja filter shows them also with '[' ']'.

[terminalmage]

Tuples are not supported, as Salt data renders to JSON-serializable data structures.

[terminalmage]

A list should work in that example.

[arnisoph]

I don't see a benefit in this feature anymore, therefor closing now.