On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Jeff Weiss <jeff.we...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
Facter itself will not use the cache. If you have an application that > needs facts and needs them quickly, you may read the yaml file on disk. On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Ken Barber <k...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: And from memory PE already does this. I mean a cron job with: > > facter -y > /var/lib/facter/cache.yaml > Based on past experiences I am always a little unnerved by the idea of using a file on disk as "API". It is revealing an implementation detail of your program that makes it much harder to make changes in the future without breaking backwards compatibility. That concern, combined with Ken's cron job snippet, gives me the inclination to say that people can fairly achieve what you are describing without us formally committing to that as an "API"... and that seems like a win to me. -- 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.
