On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, at 18:32, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> I want to do dot based fact queries in PQL, basic example:
> 
>    inventory[certname] {facts.os.distro.release.major = "7"}
> 
> Great, no problems so far that works, but I cannot figure out how to say
> != "7"
> 
> in the fact endpoint I can do:
> 
>    facts {name = "%s" and !(value = "%s")}
> 
> However this does not support the dot notation so thats not useful here.
> 
> The AST docs[1] says there is and, or and not but I cant figure out how
> to use it there, the error messages various attempts give me are:
> 
>    inventory[certname] {facts.os.distro.release.major not "7"
>    Expected one of:
> 
>    is not null
>    is null
>    in
>    =
>    >
>    <
>    <=
>    >=
>    ~>
>    ~
> 
> This rather makes me think a basic not isn't supported here? But the old
> AST docs[1] suggests it should be, so I am guessing some support is
> missing in PQL here?
> 

flaf on IRC said to try this:

    inventory[certname] {!(facts.os.distro.release.major = "7")}

This works, still to figure out string compares :)

> I'd also like to be able to do > etc on string values, which I think the
> AST based queries also support?
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppetdb/5.0/api/query/v4/ast.html#dot-notation
> 
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