On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@explanatorygap.net>wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net>
> wrote:
> > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> writes:
> >> On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:44 -0700, Yushu Yao wrote:
> >>
> >>> Any reason you can't use facter the command line?
> >>> E.g. call in python commands.getstatusoutput("facter")
> >>
> >> Because it's a dirty hack? ;)
> >
> > Internally facter does a lot of the same, FWIW. ;)
>
> Honestly, the vast majority of Facter facts are just shelling out
> underneath as Daniel said.
>
> I can imagine a magical land where we have native Ruby bindings for
> everything we currently shell out for, but it's not here yet...
>
> I do like the idea of community maintained wrappers around Facter to
> at least make coding against Facter in other languages easier, as it
> really won't be that much work.
>
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5093 filed, please watch if you're
interested, and feel free to start sending patches around.
I see this as something the community should be able to contribute and we
ship as part of the source tarball.
I'm happy to work with anyone on Python support.
>
> > I think what you probably want is 'facter --yaml', which emits the data
> in a
> > format easily consumed by other applications. Wrap, or cache, or process
> that
> > from your Python library and you have a nice, language independent way to
> get
> > that data.
> >
> > Which is essentially what you want, right?
>
> I think so. You'll want to work out how to simulate the '-p/--puppet'
> option, but otherwise it's all just going to be yaml parsing.
>
> I see Matthew's concerns about security, but I'd argue you simply
> wouldn't take input that gets used in actual commands. Facter doesn't
> do this, and a wrapper script wouldn't either.
>
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