Jira (BOLT-1223) Inconsistencies in Result outputs vs access methods

[Chris Barker (JIRA)]

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Chris Barker commented on BOLT-1223   Re: Inconsistencies in Result outputs vs access methods Great - .to_json or .to_json would be useful, but I guess I'm coming from the background of structured facts where you access nested data via $facts['os']['family'] etc. I can see why we can't just make [] render all of Result as a hash without introducing a breaking change since thats how you access value - but there's really the general inconsistency that one can create a thing named $foo that could be treated as a hash when printed, but can't be accessed like a hash would be when called vs all the other examples of interacting with a hash. While in the interim having $result.to_json['object'] be a working alternative until $result['object'] could be introduced as a breaking change may be acceptable - it's not intuitive that when I print $result via notice($result) I see a json hash, so to access it I need to call it as $result.to_json['object'] in my code. 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.