Jira (PUP-10775) Puppet agent fails with `Failed to deserialize Puppet::Resource::Catalog`

[Henrik Lindberg (Jira)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on PUP-10775   Re: Puppet agent fails with `Failed to deserialize Puppet::Resource::Catalog` A guess here is that binary files that cause it to fail contain sequences that result in invalid UTF-8 encoding. There is a function binary_file() that works like the file() function but it returns a Binary data type instead of a String. That function should be used instead of file() for binary content. This is supported since puppet 6 where the "rich data" catalog format is the default format (it can serialize all of the data types in the Puppet type system in two different encodings; JSON or Msgpack, where JSON is the default). In addition to handling instance of the Binary data type, it also does the right thing if it gets a string in ASCII-8bit encoding as it will be treated the same way as Binary. In a JSON encoding the binary content will be Base64 encoded text, and in Msgpack it will be a Msgpack binary. Hope that helps. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.377304.1604596654000.73826.1604671620027%40Atlassian.JIRA.