[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Disable stringify_facts in 9.0

Aleksandr Didenko adidenko at mirantis.com
Fri Dec 11 13:50:42 UTC 2015


Hi,

I agree, let's do this.

Regards,
Alex

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski <
bpiotrowski at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> my sense of aesthetics was slightly disturbed when I saw that the mounts
> fact[1] is implemented by joining mount points using a comma.
>
> It turns out that what Alex did is completely right as Puppet up to 3.8
> release has enabled stringify_facts by default. TLDR of that setting is
> that anything that is returned by Facter, ends up as a string:
>
> Facter says: ["/", "/boot", "/var", "/var/log"]
> (Cool, an array.)
>
> Puppet sees: "[\"/\", \"/boot\", \"/var\", \"/var/log\"]"
> (Not so cool.)
>
> In the result, any function that takes array as an argument either goes
> postal or aborts.
>
> I'd love to set stringify_facts to 'false' for 9.0 (as we're too late
> for that in 8.0). It is already done in Puppet 4 (which transition to
> I'd discuss maybe not this time) and apart from that, should decrease
> the number of WTF per minute for deployment engineers.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bartłomiej
>
> [1] http://preview.tinyurl.com/q6ml86c
>
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