Jira (FACT-2582) external data yaml facts don't load Time values

Issue Type:	Task
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2020/04/27 10:08 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Ben Ford

Facter 4 doesn't load yaml facts the same way that Facter 3 does. (at least on Windows.) Given a yaml file in <facterlib>/facts.d/facts.yaml like so,

---

somefact:

  time: 2020-04-28 01:44:08.148119000 +00:00

Facter 3 will report that value.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> facter somefact.time

2020-04-28 01:44:08.148119000 +00:00

But Facter 4 barfs:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> facter-ng.bat somefact.time

Failed to handle C:\ProgramData/PuppetLabs/facter/facts.d/facts.yaml as LegacyFacter::Util::Parser::YamlParser

facts: Tried to load unspecified class: Time

Fact file C:\ProgramData/PuppetLabs/facter/facts.d/facts.yaml was parsed but returned an empty data set

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Re: external data yaml facts don't load Time values

Hi Ben Ford, thanks for reporting this bug. The problem is in the Yaml parser and it affect all OS-es

With the new fix

./bin/facter --external-dir <full_path_to_external_facts_dir>  somefact.time

2020-04-28 01:44:08.148119000 +00:00

The fix will probably be released this week or the next on rubygems. Please give it a try from the PR branch in the meantime and let me know if there are any issues.

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Re: external data yaml facts don't load Time values

Tested on `Windows 2019` with the fix

$ facter-ng.bat somefact.time

2020-04-28 01:44:08.148119000 +00:00