[FACT-2950] Root of structured core facts cannot be overriden by a custom fact - Puppet Jira Server

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Because the top-level fact does not exist, the root of structured core facts could not be overridden by a custom fact. This change updates the QueryParser logic to return the root fact, if that present in the loaded facts list, thus allowing completely redefinition of core facts.

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Because the top-level fact does not exist, the root of structured core facts could not be overridden by a custom fact. This change updates the QueryParser logic to return the root fact, if that present in the loaded facts list, thus allowing completely redefinition of core facts.

Facter represents structured facts as a list of paths e.g.

os => {

  architecture => "x86_64",

  family => "Darwin",

...

  release => {

    full => "20.3.0",

    major => "20",

    minor => "3"

will be represented as

os.architecture

os.family

os.release.full

os.release.major

os.release.minor

"os" is never represented as a fact name.

When we create a custom fact "os", we don't override the list of facts, we just create a new fact and add it to that list

os

os.architecture

os.family

os.release.full

os.release.major

os.release.minor