Corey -- I mentioned this before in a previous post but I can't find that post. > > Anyways, I am using the puppet api rest interface and my python yaml > parser doesn't like the output given. Exactly what parser are you > guys using to encode your objects into Yaml? I don't know why my > parser is choking you the yaml from puppet. > I am using puppet enterprise 1.0 which is version puppet 2.6.4 I > believe. If I need to patch let me know how to patch with puppet > enterprise. > > I am using the following yaml parser > > http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML > > > This is the part where my yaml parse chokes on > > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line > 419, in construct_undefined > node.start_mark) > yaml.constructor.ConstructorError: could not determine a constructor > for the tag '!ruby/object:Puppet::Node::Facts' > in "<string>", line 1, column 5: > --- !ruby/object:Puppet::Node::Facts > ^ > > This is the yaml output from the test application I built which should > correspond to line 1, column 5 > http://pastebin.com/0SgHerVM >
That is valid (but inconvenient) yaml; the format specifically allows the serialization of language/application specific objects. But yeah, we wish we'd not used that feature. There are a few things you can do here: 1) most yaml parsers should have hooks for you to define mapping to a "local" equivalent type; 2) a sed/awk/python preprocessor could "generisize" the yaml by either replacing the object reference with hashes (which are very similar) or by the equivalent python construct (what does a python object look like serialized?), 3) ... and I forgot what my third idea was...oh. Some yaml parsers have a (nonstandard) facility to morph unknown objects to something "standard" (e.g. a dictionary). Do either of these seem feasible? -- M ----------------------------------------------------------- When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- 1920's parody of the maritime general prudential rule ------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
