Jira (FACT-1895) Executable and Structured data facts in .txt format to allow Boolean conversion

[Martin Ewings (JIRA)]

Martin Ewings created an issue

Facter / FACT-1895 Executable and Structured data facts in .txt format to allow Boolean conversion Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/11/27 5:23 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Martin Ewings When interpreting a fact in a key Value pair either in a .txt file or in the return from an executable fact, see example: key1=true key2=false key3=true   Currently this data type interprets only as a String. "true" and "false" are not identified as being boolean values, as they would in a JSON or YAML Structured data facts   The request would be to either, allow for the interpretation of the key value pairs as boolean   or to allow JSON or YAML formatted returns from Executable facts   Add Comment

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[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

Branan Riley commented on FACT-1895

Re: Executable and Structured data facts in .txt format to allow Boolean conversion JSON and YAML formatting are already supported in executable facts (see FACT-1356 and FACT-1653). We have a ticket to update the documentation to reflect that. It ended up in the release notes, but fell through the cracks for updating the main documentation.   FACT-1876 tracks us making explicit in the docs how executable facts work when outputting structured data.

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[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

Branan Riley commented on FACT-1895

Re: Executable and Structured data facts in .txt format to allow Boolean conversion

As far as changing how we parse key=value, I think we'd probably consider that a breaking change - the types of facts are sort of part of the "API" with puppet manifests, and changing those types can break compiles

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[Austin Boyd (JIRA)]

Austin Boyd updated an issue

Facter / FACT-1895

Executable and Structured data facts in .txt format to allow Boolean conversion

Change By: Austin Boyd Zendesk Ticket IDs: 32686 Zendesk Ticket Count: 1

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