Custom fact displays with brackets and double quotes, eg ["<fact value>"]

[Ryan Anderson]

I have a ruby custom fact that when queried with 'facter -p mysite' displays as expected (eg TX), but if I do 'facter -p | grep mysite' it shows up like ["MN"]. It will show up this wrong way when it goes to puppetdb (whose data I view with puppetboard).

This custom fact only behaves this way on one platform, AIX with ruby 2.0.0p353. The built-in facts do not have this same issue. Any ideas on how to fix this? The ruby fact code is something like:

Facter.add("mysite") do

    setcode do

        case Facter.value(:ipaddress)

            when /^10\.1\.91\.|^10\.1\.92\.|^10\.1\.93\./

                "TX"

            when /^13\.1\.1\.|^13\.1\.2\./

                "CA"

        end

    end

end

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

is this machine also running a different facter version?

You may wish to report this as a bug at https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/

Thanks,
Felix

[Ryan Anderson]

Oops, I should have been more specific. All AIX versions exhibit this behavior and all are consistently running facter 1.7.5 and puppet open source 3.4.3; both are installed via ruby gem.