Jira (FACT-479) Custom facts with facter 1.7.5 on AIX display facts as [""]

[Adrien Thebo (JIRA)]

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Adrien Thebo commented on an issue   Re: Custom facts with facter 1.7.5 on AIX display facts as ["<fact value>"] The description of this issue indicates that the value in your custom fact is returning an array of values rather than a single value. Facter handles single values separately from multiple values; single values are printed with `puts` but multiple values are interpolated as a string. See https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/blob/1.7.5/lib/facter/application.rb#L68-L76 for more information. I was able to reproduce this with the following: [1] pry(main)> value = ["TX"] [2] pry(main)> puts value TX [3] pry(main)> puts "mysite => #{value}" mysite => ["TX"] [4] pry(main)> puts ["foo", "bar"] foo bar This is intended behavior on the part of Ruby; when outputting an array each element of the array is put on a separate line so when an array has one element it displays like a single value. Returning multiple values demonstrates that each value is on a different line. Since this is a bug in the custom fact and not a bug in Facter I'm closing this issue. To resolve this on your end, make sure that your custom fact is returning a string and not an array of strings. Add Comment   Facter / FACT-479 Custom facts with facter 1.7.5 on AIX display facts as ["<fact value>"] I have a ruby custom fact that when queried with 'facter -p mysite' on AIX 6.1/7.1 displays as expected (eg TX), but if I do 'facter -p | grep mysite' it shows up like ["TX"]. It will show up this wrong way when it goes to puppetdb. The facter version is 1.7.5 with puppet 3.4.3, both installed via gems, on AIX with ruby 2.0.0p353. The built-in facts do... 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/d/optout.