Fixed #1201 - all external node attributes are converted to strings.

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index d51e3f0b6..2c59aac9b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+    Fixed #1201 - all external node attributes are converted to strings.
+
     Adding a ResourceTemplate class for using templates directly
     within resources (i.e., client-side templates).  This would really
     only be used for composite resources that pass the results of the
diff --git a/lib/puppet/indirector/node/exec.rb b/lib/puppet/indirector/node/exec.rb
index 52cbc370c..029a35c4f 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/indirector/node/exec.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/indirector/node/exec.rb
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ class Puppet::Node::Exec < Puppet::Indirector::Exec
     def create_node(name, result)
         node = Puppet::Node.new(name)
         set = false
+        if current = result[:parameters]
+            result[:parameters] = current.inject({}) do |strings, ary|
+                param, value = ary
+                strings[param] = value.to_s
+                strings
+            end
+        end
         [:parameters, :classes, :environment].each do |param|
             if value = result[param]
                 node.send(param.to_s + "=", value)
diff --git a/spec/unit/indirector/node/exec.rb b/spec/unit/indirector/node/exec.rb
index 09f13ab90..2276e4298 100755
--- a/spec/unit/indirector/node/exec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/indirector/node/exec.rb
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ describe Puppet::Node::Exec do
             @searcher.find(@request)
         end
 
+        it "should convert all parameters into strings" do
+            @result[:parameters] = {"a" => true, "c" => 100}
+            @node.expects(:parameters=).with "a" => "true", "c" => "100"
+            @searcher.find(@request)
+        end
+
         it "should set the resulting classes as the node classes" do
             @result[:classes] = %w{one two}
             @node.expects(:classes=).with %w{one two}