Jira (PDB-3887) Bring the negation of PQL operators in line with other PE components

[Adam Bottchen (JIRA)]

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Adam Bottchen created an issue   PuppetDB / PDB-3887 Bring the negation of PQL operators in line with other PE components Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/04/02 3:02 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Adam Bottchen After working with the PE console, or most programming languages, a user may very well attempt a PQL query along the lines of:     # puppet query 'inventory { facts.kernel = "Linux" and facts.virtual != "hyperv" }'     Unfortunately, this will result in the error message:   Error response 400 Bad Request from server: PQL parse error at line 1, column 54: inventory { facts.kernel = "Linux" and facts.virtual != "hyperv" } ^ Expected one of: is not null is null in = > < <= >= ~> ~ The documentation at https://puppet.com/docs/puppetdb/5.1/api/query/v4/pql.html#boolean-operators states that the negation has to be with the boolean operator rather than the conditional operator, but this is not in line with other areas of PE.  Specifically the PE Console, where the negation operators ("Unable to render embedded object: File (~" and ") not found.=") are available.   It would be preferred that the PQL operators were the same as those seen in other parts of the product.    Alternately, it would be an improvement to pick up negation simply in the wrong spot and have the error message note that it needs to be moved. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- 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.