Jira (PUP-8543) Puppet partly relies on legacy facts

[Philippe Muller (JIRA)]

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Philippe Muller created an issue   Puppet / PUP-8543 Puppet partly relies on legacy facts Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 5.4.0 Assignee: Unassigned Components: Types and Providers Created: 2018/03/12 10:37 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Philippe Muller Puppet Version: 5.4.0 OS Name/Version: All Reading the documentation, I believe the recommended way to access facts is through $facts. However, some parts of the code base still relies on legacy facts. For example, see provider/service/init.rb. When writing a module which strictly relies on new-style facts, this is bothering: the only way to make them work is to provide both legacy and new-style facts.  Desired Behavior: Only relies new-style facts. Actual Behavior: Still relies on legacy facts. Gives weird errors, like this one: Puppet::PreformattedError: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Could not autoload puppet/type/service: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/gentoo: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/init: undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.