Jira (PUP-10847) "puppet facts show fact" output differs from "facter fact"

[Clay Caviness (Jira)]

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Clay Caviness updated an issue   Puppet / PUP-10847 "puppet facts show fact" output differs from "facter fact" Change By: Clay Caviness *Puppet Version:* {{7.1}} *OS Name/Version:* macOS 11.1 The output of "{{puppet facts show _somefact_}}" is not the same as "{{facter _somefact_}}", as it returns JSON, which requires subsequent parsing to get the the fact value. We use "{{facter --puppet _somefact_}}" quite a bit in non-puppet code, such as shell and python scripts and other internal management utilities. This is a strongly complicating issue in a migration from facter 3/puppet 6 to facter 4/puppet 7: "{{facter --puppet}}" no longer works in Facter 4, and I believe "{{puppet facts show _somefact_}}" only works in Puppet 7. This will mean all the various places we use "{{facter --puppet _somefact_}}" will have to have a case on the puppet version and then call "{{facter --puppet _somefact_}}" or "{{puppet facts show _somefact_}}" as appropriate. And we'll have to do extra processing on the output of "{{puppet facts show}}", as it sends JSON. *Desired Behavior:* {quote} $ puppet facts show facterversion 4.0.47 $ facter facterversion 4.0.47 {quote} *Actual Behavior:* {quote} $ puppet facts show facterversion \ {   "facterversion": "4.0.47" } \ $ facter facterversion 4.0.47 {quote} Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.382201.1609880859000.108272.1609881720055%40Atlassian.JIRA.