Jira (PUP-10210) puppet fails with JSON error when a fact value equals Infinity

Thomas Hallgren (JIRA) Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:13:32 -0800

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Float::INFINITY is of type Float, both in Ruby and in most other languages. I don't see anything wrong in treating it as a Float in Pcore too. Further more, many serialization formats, including YAML, can handle both NaN and infinity. The way I see it, this is only a problem when serializing using JSON and as such, it doesn't motivate a new data type. The best solution is to improve the Pcore rich-data serialization specifically for JSON so that the values NaN, infinity, and negative infinity are serialized using:

{ "__ptype": "Float", "__pvalue": "NaN"},{ "__ptype": "Float", "__pvalue": "infinity"}, { "__ptype": "Float", "__pvalue": "-infinity"}

i.e. no new data type, just force use of strings on the Float data type.

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Jira (PUP-10210) puppet fails with JSON error when a fact value equals Infinity

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