Puppet facter utf-8 error

[mobios]

Hello Puppet User,

Infos:

Puppet-client-version = 3.8.4

facter= 2.4.4

Puppetserver = 4.10.0

I wrote a fact to discover all firewallrules on a windows machine.

Factname is windows_firewallrules.rb and returnvalue is a nested hash.

if i execute following command.

facter -p windows_firewallrules

I can see all firewallrules correctly. But if i execute

puppet agent -tdv

I get a  error and the puppetrun stops.

Errormessage:

invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 

I found out the issue is caused from my windows_firewallrules fact.

I have already set the encoding fix to UTF-8.

for example:

name.encode!('UTF-8', :invalid => :replace)
key.encode!('UTF-8', :invalid => :replace)
value.encode!('UTF-8', :invalid => :replace)

windows_firewallrules[name][key] = value

Strangely if i iterate through my nested hash (windows_firewallrules) i cant see anythink wrong.

for example:

windows_firewallrules.each do |k1, v1|
  if k1.encoding.to_s != 'UTF-8'
    puts k1.encoding
  end

  v1.each do |k2, v2|    
  if k2.encoding.to_s != 'UTF-8'
    puts k2.encoding
  end

  if v2.encoding.to_s != 'UTF-8'
    puts v2.encoding
  end
 end
end

Has anyone a idea ?

Best regards

mobios

 

[Rob Nelson]

Is there a chance the encoding on the file containing the custom fact itself is not UTF8? It won't matter if the output is UTF-8 if Puppet can't parse it to apply the code inside it. `file <filename>` usually starts with `ASCII` or `UTF-8 Unicode` if it's in the proper format.

Rob Nelson
rnel...@gmail.com

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[mobios]

  Thank for your reply Rob

I checked on the the puppetserver the file encoding

  

file windows_firewallrules.rb

   and the encoding was ASCII text.

 It seems the encoding is in right format :(