Issue #21538 has been reported by Clay Caviness.
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Bug #21538: cfpropertylist can't handle plain text plists?
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/21538
* Author: Clay Caviness
* Status: Unreviewed
* Priority: Normal
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* Affected Facter version: 1.7.1
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I was exploring replacing `Facter::Util::Plist` with
`Facter::Util::CFPropertylist` in the `launchd` provider (and eventually
elsewhere) when I discovered a bug in `CFPropertylist`. It handles binary
plists fine, but <strong>can't</strong> handle text plists.
If I have two versions of the same simple plist, one text, one binary, the
binary can be read but the text fails with a NoMethodError in the XML parser.
To reproduce, first create a simple text plist and a version converted to
binary:
<pre>
$ PlistBuddy -c 'add :key string value' /tmp/text.plist
File Doesn't Exist, Will Create: text.plist
$ plutil -convert binary1 -o /tmp/binary.plist /tmp/text.plist
</pre>
Now, try to parse the files using CFPropertylist:
<pre>
$ ruby -r facter -r facter/util/cfpropertylist -e
'Facter::Util::CFPropertyList::List.new(:file => "/tmp/binary.plist")'
$ ruby -r facter -r facter/util/cfpropertylist -e
'Facter::Util::CFPropertyList::List.new(:file => "/tmp/text.plist")'
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/cfpropertylist/lib/rbREXMLParser.rb:19:in
`load': undefined method `root' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/cfpropertylist/lib/rbCFPropertyList.rb:329:in
`load'
from
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/cfpropertylist/lib/rbCFPropertyList.rb:244:in
`initialize'
from -e:1:in `new'
from -e:1
</pre>
This is on OS X 10.8.4 (and the default ruby 1.8.7).
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