from __future__ import absolute_import
import logging

# Import Salt libs
import salt.ext.six as six


def ext_pillar(minion_id,
               pillar,  # pylint: disable=W0613
               url=None):

    # Set up logging
    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    data = __salt__['http.query'](url=url, decode=True, decode_type='json')

    if 'dict' in data:
        return data['dict']

    log.error('Error caught on query to' + url + '\nMore Info:\n')

    for k, v in six.iteritems(data):
        log.error(k + ' : ' + v)

    return {}