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ah makes sense. I'm not sure what the plan is for public puppet/facter rubygems, suggest bringing that up at the next sync

Alright folks that's a wrap see you again in 2 weeks!

I'm a bit confused about the "undef" keyword. I see it used with two different casings, is this correct usage?
`Variant[String, Undef] $user = undef`

Yes it's an alternative way to express `Optional[]`

I meant: Should Undef be capitalized as a data type, but be all lowercase (undef) as a value?

Ok, just checking. It's very easy to mix up when to use what... :slightly_smiling_face:

btw you should use <#C0W298S9G|> this channel here is more for scheduled events

Ah, ok! I thought it was for questions during office-hours.. :slightly_smiling_face:

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`Undef` is a data type, `undef` is the only allowed value for the `Undef` data type.

"office hours" is used here as in definition number 2: <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/office%20hours>

It is correct usage, but you may prefer the shorter form `Optional[String]`

\o Good day y’all - console office hour has begun!

If you have any questions/suggestions for anything related to the console, any of the console services (RBAC, Classifier, Activity Service) or the Orchestrator, etc. ask away.

OK, that’s a wrap for today - we’ll be back in a couple of weeks. Y’all be good to yourselves!

Looks like the calendar has an issue, I’ll see about getting that fixed

Looks like the next Puppet office hour would be this Thursday, but that’s a US holiday so the 25th iis the next office hour for both Puppet and Puppet Enterprise

sorry I’m a bit late - team lunch today

Hi folks, office hours are open for the next hour!

&gt; 2025-05-29 21:54:02  VoxBot  &lt;bastelfreak&gt; <@U11567REE> when calling a face in ruby, for example
 `Puppet::Face[:parser, :current].validate(file)`, how could I set the `--render-as` CLI option?

in puppet-syntax we use that to validate Puppet code and we want to provide code annotations for GitHub CI. that's easier if we get json back

<https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-syntax/blob/master/lib/puppet-syntax/manifests.rb> this has room for improvement if we could get json

same applies for <https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk/blob/main/lib/pdk/validate/puppet/puppet_syntax_validator.rb#L53>

also you are in my presentation about faces: <https://bastelfreak.de/puppethacks/#23>

oh haha, yeah I still stand by that statement, read the source code comments and you'll see why

Do you know if we've a chance to get json / set the render-as option? I didn't find that in the code

I'd be curious if you could go through the higher-level application
```app = Puppet::Application[:parser]
app.render_as = :json
app.main(manifest)```
The only thing is the app tries to exit