Fact 'jenkins_plugins' can exceed value length limit: 4096

[zipkid]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 7.17.0
• Ruby: /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/ruby --version : ruby 2.7.6p219 (2022-04-12 revision c9c2245c0a) [aarch64-linux]
• Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

What are you seeing

Info: Loading facts
Warning: Fact value 'JDK_Parameter_Plugin .... workflow-step-api 622.vb_8e7c15b_c95a_, workflow-support 804.vba10a18a1476, ws-cleanup 0.40' with the value length: '4944' exceeds the value length limit: 4096

[ekohl]

This is probably because they increased version numbers to longer strings. We should really convert it to a structured fact.

[ekohl]

"Good" news! I can now reproduce this too.

[iscb1962]

Do we have a date when the fix for this will be implemented (there's a comment from Sep 2022 which links to a pull request which changes the fact to a structured fact - obviously I do not know if that is the full story) ?

Or at very least do we have some instructions on how to prevent the warning when we run puppet on the node(s) using this jenkins module.

Finally is there any other impact than a warning - ie is something likely to fail / not fully operate ?

[zipkid]

You can remove the warning by setting https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/configuration.html#fact-value-length-soft-limit to a higher value. It is only a warning and will not break anything.