Issue #4561 has been updated by eric sorenson.
I've written up what I think are the latest discussion as a puppet Armature (enhancement proposal process); i'm particularly curious to see how watchers on this bug feel about the two proposals in the "Alternatives" section: https://github.com/puppetlabs/armatures/blob/master/arm-5.structured_facts/structured_facts.md Please feel free to comment on these either by forking and submitting pull requests (if you want to add/change text) or raising github issues on the repository if it's just commentary/questions. ---------------------------------------- Feature #4561: Structured data should be supported https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4561#change-83966 Author: Luke Kanies Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: library Target version: 2.0.0 Keywords: backlog Branch: https://github.com/kbarber/facter/tree/ticket/master/4561-add_structured_data Affected Facter version: Facter currently only supports a flat result list, and it should instead support structured data - basically, a hash of hashes and arrays. This should probably be able to be represented in two ways - either a hash of hashes/arrays, or namespaces. That is, this: <pre> {:top => {:middle => {:bottom => "value"}}} </pre> Could also be represented as: <pre> top::middle::bottom = value </pre> We could optionally have a converter that s/::/_/g for backward compatibility, which should be both trivial and unnecessary, but there should definitely be some kind of backward compatibility mode for callers who can't deal with structured data. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
