Issue #3704 has been updated by Adrien Thebo.
We've been looking into adding more complex data types into Puppet, and as it turns out this is pretty hard. Right now we stringify all facts in Puppet after they've been retrieved, and changing this has some pretty significant changes in how Puppet handles facts. Puppet itself and applications using the stored facts that Puppet generates have all been built to expect that Puppet provides facts as string typed key/value pairs, and changing this requires a non-trivial amount of work inside of Puppet itself. Right now Facter itself can and will return arbitrary types, but we just can't use them inside of Puppet. ---------------------------------------- Bug #3704: Facter doesn't return booleans (converts them to strings instead) https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3704 Author: Sebastian Kayser Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: library Target version: 2.0.0 Keywords: Branch: Affected Facter version: I am just getting started with puppet/facter and it took me a quite while to realize that facter seems to convert custom boolean facts to strings (tried boolean comparisons in my puppet recipes for ages before realizing it). This has also been reported here http://groups.google.de/group/puppet-users/msg/c1939ed3b4404668 where Luke asked to file a bug report. As I couldn't find one, here it goes. Example: <pre> $ ls test.pp test.rb $ cat test.rb Facter.add("myfact") do setcode do true end end $ cat test.pp notice($myfact) if $myfact == true { notice("Boolean ... just like I expected!") } else { if $myfact == 'true' { notice("Houston ... it's a string!") }} $ FACTERLIB=. puppet test.pp notice: Scope(Class[main]): true notice: Scope(Class[main]): Houston ... it's a string! $ puppet --version 0.25.4 $ facter --version 1.5.7 </pre> -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
