How do you parse JSON in Puppet? Well, now that is a bit of a more complicated question to answer. First of all, Puppet doesn’t handle standard JSON; rather, it uses a variant called “PSON.” PSON’s main difference is that it is specified in 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8, and some ASCII control characters must be escaped via an escape sequence. Furthermore, if you have a string parsed into Puppet with Unicode characters, you cannot use that string as-is, else you will get “invalid UTF-16le literal” errors. You must first decode the UTF-16 into UTF-8, then encode and escape and ASCII control sequences.
20200124/DuckDuckGo puppet parse json string from command
20200124/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43729915/parse-a-json-string-in-puppet
20200124/https://ask.puppet.com/questions/28878/how-to-handle-json-data-in-puppet/
20200124/https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/http_api/pson.html
20200124/https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-9195
In particular, if you are reading the output of a “shell backticks” command, Unicode characters will be translated and represented in the Puppet native form. Which is what? UTF-8… strings are just sequences of bytes, but in the future, all strings may be required to be valid UTF-8.
20200124/DuckDuckGo puppet string literal syntax
20200124/https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/lang_data_strings.html
Here’s how to do “shell backticks” in Puppet. You create a dynamic template string and then evaluate it.
20200124/DuckDuckGo puppet backticks
20200124/DuckDuckGo puppet command stdout string
20200124/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33800565/how-to-store-linux-command-output-into-a-variable-in-puppet
How do you print a debug string in Puppet? Just use notice("...").
20200124/DuckDuckGo puppet print debug string
20200124/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4135426/how-to-print-something-when-running-puppet-client