Thank you for the background information and for the code snippet. 

Am Montag, 17. November 2014 21:50:37 UTC+1 schrieb Michael DeHaan:
>
> INI files are presently supported for local facts and are parsed with 
> Python's ConfigParser.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Michael can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe we're moving more
>> and more to json for communicating between modules and ansible core.
>> So we probably wouldn't be adding additional use of ini at that level.
>> Note that for simple return values, (which is hopefully all you're
>> doing with ini ;-)  json is only a little harder to generate in shell.
>> Substitute something like this:
>>
>> # ini:
>> printf '[myfact]\n'
>> for key in foo bar ; do
>>   for value in `seq 1 2` ; do
>>     printf '%s%s=%s\n' $key $value $value
>>   done
>> done
>>
>> with this:
>> # json
>> output='{ "myfact": { '
>> for key in foo bar ; do
>>   for value in `seq 1 2` ; do
>>     output+=`printf '"%s%s":%s,' $key $value $value`
>>   done
>> done
>> output=`echo $output | sed 's/,$//'`
>> printf '%s } }\n' "$output"
>>
>> JSON has slightly more verbosity (the curly braces to mark where the
>> data structures begin and end) and you have to add a bit of logic to
>> make sure your sequence of values does not end with a comma but it's
>> not too bad.  Nothing like *shudder* writing XML in shell ;-)
>>
>> -Toshio
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:37 PM,  <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I start learning Ansible with a Puppet background, so the concept of
>> > executable facts is well-known. Sometimes it is easier to write a little
>> > shell script for a custom fact, so my question is, is it planned to 
>> support
>> > INI format as output for executable facts? It would make easier writing
>> > custom facts in shell.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Sandra
>> >
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