Adding a version to invent output

[kushaldas]

We need to add a version value to the JSON output of the puppet facts. We can clearly see a big difference between 5.5.x series of puppet and 7.x series (on Debian 12).

I propose to have a python script which will work on the final output file, and fix/update as required by us.

Example version values:

For 5.x series of puppet

{'version': '5' }

For 7.x series of puppet

{'version': '7'}

And so on.

This will help us to identify the format of the file in a proper parsable way, for example on Debian 12, puppet fact does not generate any timestamp in the output, so we have to deal with that.

[theseal]

What's wrong with the fact that puppet provides?
E.g "puppetversion": "7.23.0"

[kushaldas]

What's wrong with the fact that puppet provides? E.g "puppetversion": "7.23.0"

Oh, my comment was related to slowly moving into https://github.com/fredrikt/nerds or similar data.