Jira (PUP-8325) Trusted facts can't be structured data

[Nate McCurdy (JIRA)]

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Nate McCurdy created an issue   Puppet / PUP-8325 Trusted facts can't be structured data Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 5.3.3 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/01/05 2:01 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Nate McCurdy Problem It appears to be impossible to have a trusted fact whose value is structured data or any data type other than a String. Desired Behavior Given a csr_attributes.yaml like the below, I'd expect the value of pp_product to be a hash containing Strings, Booleans, and Arrays. --- extension_requests: pp_role: test pp_product: owner: nate name: "A test product" approved: true is_a_thing: false tiers: - one - two - blue Actual Behavior The value of the trusted fact for pp_product is stringified as shown in the Puppet Enterprise console: { "authenticated" : "remote", "certname" : "pe-201732-agent.puppetdebug.vlan", "domain" : "puppetdebug.vlan", "extensions" : { "pp_product" : "{\"owner\"=>\"nate\", \"name\"=>\"A test product\", \"approved\"=>true, \"is_a_thing\"=>false, \"tiers\"=>[\"one\", \"two\", \"blue\"]}", "pp_role" : "test" }, "hostname" : "pe-201732-agent" } In code, the $trusted variable also doesn't contain a tiers array. The errors message implies that pp_product is a String: node default { $pp_product_tiers = $trusted['extensions']['pp_product']['tiers'] notify { $pp_product_tiers: } } [root@pe-201732-agent ~]# puppet agent -t Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: A substring operation does not accept a String as a character index. Expected an Integer at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp:4:60 on node pe-201732-agent.puppetdebug.vlan Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.0.2#70111-sha1:88534db) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.