Jira (PUP-11445) Catalogs that aren't renderable as JSON break Deferred types

[Nick Hall (Jira)]

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Nick Hall created an issue   Puppet / PUP-11445 Catalogs that aren't renderable as JSON break Deferred types Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 6.15.0 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2022/02/02 2:04 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Nick Hall We noticed that under certain circumstances, catalogs with Deferred types were breaking - e.g. specifically if we used an inline_epp inside a deferred type, the file would mis-render:   --- /tmp/test.key       2022-02-02 04:34:40.045388413 -0500 +++ /tmp/puppet-file20220202-128374-86xb8b      2022-02-02 04:49:12.886008617 -0500 @@ -1 +1 @@ -hi \ No newline at end of file +Deferred({'name' => 'sprintf', 'arguments' => ['hi']}) \ No newline at end of file At the same time, running puppetserver with debug logging enabled yielded:   2022-02-02T04:49:08.814-05:00 DEBUG [qtp1187621108-381] [puppetserver] Puppet Could not render to Puppet::Network::Format[json]: source sequence is illegal/malformed utf-8 json/ext/GeneratorMethods.java:70:in `to_json'   [snip]   2022-02-02T04:49:08.866-05:00 WARN  [qtp1187621108-381] [puppetserver] Puppet File[/tmp/test.key]['content'] contains a Deferred value. It will be converted to the String 'Deferred({'name' => 'sprintf', 'arguments' => ['hi']})' (file: /path/to/manifest.pp, line: 18) Sure enough - we had a binary file in the catalogue, which upon removal fixed both the JSON rendering error and rectified the deferred issue... This seems like a bug - somehow the rendering error was causing Deferreds to be handled badly... Thanks Nick   Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.2#820002-sha1:829506d) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.433848.1643796244000.6440.1643796300116%40Atlassian.JIRA.