Jira (FACT-2148) Investigate what interface does PuppetDB use to communicate with Facter

[Bogdan Irimie (JIRA)]

Bogdan Irimie created an issue

Facter / FACT-2148 Investigate what interface does PuppetDB use to communicate with Facter Issue Type: Task Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2019/12/02 1:40 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Bogdan Irimie Add Comment

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[Michael Smith (JIRA)]

Michael Smith commented on FACT-2148

Re: Investigate what interface does PuppetDB use to communicate with Facter I don't think it does. Puppet gathers facts using Facter, then submits them to PuppetDB. Are you thinking of something else?

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[Bogdan Irimie (JIRA)]

Bogdan Irimie commented on FACT-2148

Re: Investigate what interface does PuppetDB use to communicate with Facter

Some context: the output of Facter 3.x (c Facter) is very close to hocon format, but it is not a valid hocon. We would like to have a valid hocon format as standard for Facter NG. At the moment we have multiple output formatters (json, yaml, hocon and one "custom" that  produces output identical to Facter 3.x).  We would like to know where the standard output from Facter is used and if the migration to a valid hocon format would affect other components.

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[Michael Smith (JIRA)]

Michael Smith commented on FACT-2148

Re: Investigate what interface does PuppetDB use to communicate with Facter

I think it's just meant to be visually appealing. I don't think any tools expect to parse it, that's why we have yaml and json output formats. People may not have followed those guidelines though.

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