2010/1/11 Thomas Bellman <[email protected]>:
> Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/11 Ohad Levy <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> is there a reason why not to strip all facts?
>>>
>>
>> I'm a little cautious about doing that in general in case someone has
>> a dependancy on a fact with a space in or valid but odd setups
>> (directories with trailing space). Although all the examples I can
>> think of are contrived there may be valid cases.
>>
>> Facts should be responsible for their own data formatting so know when
>> it's safe to strip.
>
> I use a custom fact for transferring (small) binary blobs to the server,
> so at least until I have rewritten that to base64-encode it, I would prefer
> that facts aren't mangled...

Thanks for a concrete example. We'll stick with the approach of only
doing formatting in the individual facts themselves as in this patch.

Paul
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