Jira (FACT-151) Structured data should be supported

[Jason Antman (JIRA)]

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Jason Antman commented on an issue   Re: Structured data should be supported Why should this just be a hash? IMO, the expectation from most of us who use Facter mainly through Puppet, is that $::factname should be able to be any puppet data type - string, boolean, hash, array, etc. Add Comment   Facter / FACT-151 Structured data should be supported Facter currently only supports a flat result list, and it should instead support structured data - basically, a hash of hashes and arrays. This should probably be able to be represented in two ways - either a hash of hashes/arrays, or namespaces. That is, this: <pre> {:top => {:middle => {:bottom => "value"}}} </pre> Could also be represented as: ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.