Puppet users - May 2013 - Facter fact appears to be a string and not an array.

Good day

I wrote my own fact for facter. And as you can see from my copy and 
paste it appears to be working.

disk => ["/dev/sda", "/dev/sdb"]
disk_count => 2

The problem I appear to have is. This is the code for my template.

<%- @disk.each do |dev| %>
   disk <%= dev %>
<%- end %>

And the result I get back is/

+
+disk /dev/sda/dev/sdb
+

as opposed to

disk /dev/sda
disk /dev/sdb

Would anyone know why I am getting a string as opposed to an array.

Another question, if you dont mind. Is there a reason why the interfaces 
fact is a string and not an array?
interfaces => eth0,eth1,lo

Kind Regards
Brent Clark

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On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:15:14 AM UTC-5, Brent
wrote:
>
>
> Would anyone know why I am getting a string as opposed to an array. 
>
>
Because all facts are strings.  That''s the way it has always been,
though I
understand there''s some work underway to provide for more data types in
the
future.

 
> Another question, if you dont mind. Is there a reason why the interfaces 
> fact is a string and not an array? 
> interfaces => eth0,eth1,lo 
>
>
Yes, because all facts are strings.  If you want an array then you can 
process the fact value through the split() function.


John

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