Jira (PUP-2369) Add extra info to property's return

[Adrien Thebo (JIRA)]

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Adrien Thebo commented on an issue   Re: Add extra info to property's return Wait, I jumped the gun. It looks like this is both adding too much information to average use, it's also incorrect: [root@master puppet]# bundle exec puppet resource file /root mode=0600 Notice: /File[/root]/mode: mode changed '0550' of type String to '0700' of type String file { '/root': ensure => 'directory', mode => '700', } [root@master puppet]# bundle exec puppet resource file /root mode=0600 owner=vagrant group=vagrant Notice: /File[/root]/owner: owner changed 'root' of type Fixnum to 'vagrant' of type Fixnum Notice: /File[/root]/group: group changed 'root' of type Fixnum to 'vagrant' of type Fixnum file { '/root': ensure => 'directory', group => '500', mode => '700', owner => '500', } The owner and group changes are extremely misleading. In addition this globally changes how people see changes being made; the average user doesn't care about the data types of the property changes being made. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2369 Add extra info to property's return When working with boolean types in providers it happens too often that the values being passed around aren't what we think they are leading the developer down a twisty road of despair while trying to figure out why his methods aren't working. This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.