Puppet Function: fact

Defined in:
vendor_modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/functions/fact.rb
Function type:
Ruby 4.x API

Summary

Digs into the facts hash using dot-notation

Overview

fact(String $fact_name) ⇒ Any

Supports the use of dot-notation for referring to structured facts. If a fact requested does not exist, returns Undef.

Examples:

Example usage:

fact('osfamily')
fact('os.architecture')

Array indexing:

fact('mountpoints."/dev".options.1')

Fact containing a “.” in the name:

fact('vmware."VRA.version"')

Parameters:

  • fact_name (String) —

    The name of the fact to check

Returns:

  • (Any) —

    All information retrieved on the given fact_name



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# File 'vendor_modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/functions/fact.rb', line 19

Puppet::Functions.create_function(:fact) do
  # @param fact_name
  #   The name of the fact to check
  #
  # @return
  #   All information retrieved on the given fact_name
  dispatch :fact do
    param 'String', :fact_name
  end

  def to_dot_syntax(array_path)
    array_path.map { |string|
      string.include?('.') ? %("#{string}") : string
    }.join('.')
  end

  def fact(fact_name)
    facts = closure_scope['facts']

    # Transform the dot-notation string into an array of paths to walk. Make
    # sure to correctly extract double-quoted values containing dots as single
    # elements in the path.
    path = fact_name.scan(%r{([^."]+)|(?:")([^"]+)(?:")}).map { |x| x.compact.first }

    walked_path = []
    path.reduce(facts) do |d, k|
      return nil if d.nil? || k.nil?

      if d.is_a?(Array)
        begin
          result = d[Integer(k)]
        rescue ArgumentError => e # rubocop:disable Lint/UselessAssignment : Causes errors if assigment is removed.
          Puppet.warning("fact request for #{fact_name} returning nil: '#{to_dot_syntax(walked_path)}' is an array; cannot index to '#{k}'")
          result = nil
        end
      elsif d.is_a?(Hash)
        result = d[k]
      else
        Puppet.warning("fact request for #{fact_name} returning nil: '#{to_dot_syntax(walked_path)}' is not a collection; cannot walk to '#{k}'")
        result = nil
      end

      walked_path << k
      result
    end
  end
end