Jira (PUP-11446) Facts returning nil are converted to empty string

[Josh Cooper (Jira)]

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Josh Cooper commented on PUP-11446   Re: Facts returning nil are converted to empty string Our intention is for Facter 4 to handle null fact value the same as was done in 3 (and 2 to a lesser extent). I believe null fact values are ignored, so facter will continue searching for another resolution and use that. We've talked about being able to use the puppet type system to write facts. Then you could specify a type like Binary, Sensitive, Undef, etc but that work was never prioritized, see PUP-478. Also you should be able to run facter with --debug to see what each fact resolves to for example: [2022-02-07 20:46:17.110406 ] DEBUG Facter::Util::Fact - value for myfact is still nil I would expect that to work for all types of facts (custom vs external), but I don't know if that's true? 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.433923.1643832932000.10546.1644295680043%40Atlassian.JIRA.