No way to debug templates over salt-ssh #50196
Description
Description of Issue/Question
The recommended ways to debug templates are (as seen in the Slack chat):
salt 'example.com' slsutil.renderer /path/to/file.jinja 'jinja'
salt 'example.com' cp.get_template salt://path/to/template /dev/stdout template=jinja
Unfortunately, I was unable to make it work over salt-ssh:
salt-ssh -l debug example.com slsutil.renderer path='salt://test.sls' default_renderer='jinja'
...
[DEBUG ] Could not LazyLoad slsutil.renderer: 'slsutil.renderer' is not available.
...
salt-ssh example.com cp.get_template salt://test.sls /dev/stdout template=jinja
example.com:
----------
retcode:
0
stderr:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/salt-call", line 15, in <module>
salt_call()
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/scripts.py", line 400, in salt_call
client.run()
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/cli/call.py", line 57, in run
caller.run()
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/cli/caller.py", line 134, in run
ret = self.call()
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/cli/caller.py", line 212, in call
ret['return'] = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/modules/cp.py", line 335, in get_template
**kwargs)
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/fileclient.py", line 782, in get_template
**kwargs
File "/var/tmp/.root_7e26e1_salt/py3/salt/utils/templates.py", line 167, in render_tmpl
tmplstr = tmplsrc.read()
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'read'
stdout:
Third way also doesn't work:
salt-ssh example.com cp.get_file salt://test.sls /dev/stdout template=jinja
example.com:
False
Salt version 2018.3.2 on Py3.
The question is: what is the best (and documented) way to debug templates, which works consistently across salt, salt-call and salt-ssh (and maybe salt-run)?