Jira (PDB-993) events endpoint sometimes returns arrays of strings for new_value

[Kenneth Barber (JIRA)]

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Kenneth Barber commented on an issue   Re: events endpoint sometimes returns arrays of strings for new_value So in Puppet an old value and new value could be any variable type that Puppet supports. So, expect to receive hashes, arrays, strings and most probably other types as well. Think about how a resource is expressed in Puppet: notify { "foo": message => { "foo" => "bar", }, } Which correctly returns: { "containment-path" : [ "Stage[main]", "Main", "Notify[foo]" ], "new-value" : { "foo" : "bar" }, "containing-class" : "Main", "report-receive-time" : "2014-10-23T00:09:06.282Z", "report" : "e531fe4e5cc91e0ca778de94fb72a74122d497e3", "resource-title" : "foo", "property" : "message", "file" : "/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp", "old-value" : "absent", "run-start-time" : "2014-10-23T00:09:04.934Z", "line" : 32, "status" : "success", "run-end-time" : "2014-10-23T00:09:05.251Z", "resource-type" : "Notify", "environment" : "production", "timestamp" : "2014-10-23T00:09:06.152Z", "configuration-version" : "1414022945", "certname" : "puppetdb1.vm", "message" : "defined 'message' as '{\"foo\"=>\"bar\"}'" } So I don't consider this a bug in PuppetDB per se. At most this is a documentation issue, which I will fix with a PR. I would argue puppetlabs-puppetdb-javaclient needs fixing to expect this also (ping Thomas Hallgren). Add Comment   PuppetDB / PDB-993 events endpoint sometimes returns arrays of strings for new_value Our documentation and code suggests that this field should be a string, but sometimes an array of string(s) is returned: {code} {   "containment-path" : [ "Stage[main]", "Apt::Update", "Exec[apt_update]" ],   "new-value" : [ "0" ],   "containing-class" : "Apt::Update",   "report-receive-time" : "2014-10-08T02:47:54.870Z",   "report" : "0086016127fd... 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.