On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 5:06:15 PM UTC-7, Allen Myers wrote:
> So, based on the error messages, it's obvious that the generate() function
> is returning the string data type. Can I force it to return the hash data
> type?
> Or is there a way to convert a string to a hash?
>
The generate() function always returns a string that represents the stdout
of the command that was run. To turn this into structured data, you could
have your command output JSON or YAML and then use the parsejson() or
parseyaml() functions from the puppetlabs/stdlib module:
$myusers = parsejson(generate('/bin/sh', '-c', '/path/to/my/script.sh'))
Ref:
https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib#parsejson
Hope that helps!
-Charlie
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