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  1. Facter
  2. FACT-2897

Dig method fails on puppet $facts

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      Description of the problem: dig on $facts ('dig($facts, "os", "family")') fails with Facter 4. Facter's API method to_hash returns a different data type (Facter::FactCollection) than Facter 3.
      Description of the fix: Ensure that to_hash method returns a ruby Hash instance.
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      Description of the problem: dig on $facts ('dig($facts, "os", "family")') fails with Facter 4. Facter's API method to_hash returns a different data type (Facter::FactCollection) than Facter 3. Description of the fix: Ensure that to_hash method returns a ruby Hash instance.
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      On Puppet 7.0 it's not possible to dig() into $facts using Facter 4.

      root@base-buster-01-test:~# puppet -V
      		 
      7.0.0
      		 
      root@base-buster-01-test:~# puppet apply -e 'dig($facts, "os", "family")'
      		 
      Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, 'dig' parameter 'data' expects a value of type Undef or Collection, got Runtime (line: 1, column: 1) on node base-buster-01-test.local

      Facter doen't return a Hash or a Collection and that seems to be the root cause:

      puppet apply -e 'notice(type($facts))'
      		 
      Notice: Scope(Class[main]): Runtime[ruby, 'Facter::FactCollection']

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