Jira (FACT-96) Deprecate 'facter --puppet'

[Kylo Ginsberg (JIRA)]

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Kylo Ginsberg commented on FACT-96   Re: Deprecate 'facter --puppet' A couple comments from an IRC discussion that are omissions in 'puppet facts': it doesn't pretty-print facts, though there was an idea for that it doesn't allow printing individual facts (or a CLI-specified list of facts) [16:06:03] <Elyscape> you need to do "puppet facts find dummyname", it gives a completely different output format, and you can't specify individual facts to look up [16:06:14] <Elyscape> e.g. there is no equivalent of "facter -p mycustomfact" [16:06:37] <kylo> in puppet 4, you can just say 'puppet facts' [16:06:42] <Elyscape> ooh, nice [16:06:49] <kylo> that dummyname thing is/was super irritating [16:07:30] <kylo> i thought you could specify output format? but don't remember, maybe just yaml [16:07:32] <rnelson0> wow puppet facts find is horrid [16:08:17] <rnelson0> yaml or json [16:08:24] <Elyscape> you can. --render-as yaml [16:08:26] <Elyscape> json is the default [16:08:31] <Elyscape> but it's still a different format what facter prints [16:08:37] <rnelson0> RENDERING ISSUES: Facts cannot currently be rendered as a string [16:09:14] <Elyscape> also string calls #to_s, giving you (for example): #<Puppet::Node::Facts:0x000000042dff60> [16:09:35] <rnelson0> facter -p osfamily == puppet facts find puppet.nelson.va --render-as yaml | grep osfamily | awk '{print $2}' [16:10:08] <Elyscape> yeahhhh, that latter stuff shouldn't be necessary [16:16:37] <kylo> ah okay so another thing [16:17:16] <kylo> with so many facts being structured now, we chatted in triage the other day about dropping either all or all-but-a-few of the legacy flat facts [16:17:19] <kylo> in facter 3 [16:17:45] <kylo> so the plantext output for facter wouldn't be so useful for structured facts [16:17:49] <kylo> plaintext [16:19:34] <Elyscape> that's fair [16:19:59] <Elyscape> still ,there should be a way to get a single fact from "puppet facts" [16:20:35] <Elyscape> or a list. apparently you can do "facter osfamily virtual" and it'll print both [16:20:36] <kylo> and cfacter lets you do things like [16:20:40] <kylo> https://gist.github.com/kylog/eb2c1db4770176810c52 [16:20:57] <kylo> the dot notation is just an idea for now, but could be nice [16:21:09] <Elyscape> indeed [16:26:30] <Elyscape> actually, one thing that could be done would be to make "--render-as s" act like the current facter output, and that could be done by implementing the to_s method on Puppet::Node::Facts Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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.