FILE: C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\var\lib\puppet\parser\functions\parseyaml.rb

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# parseyaml.rb
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module Puppet::Parser::Functions
  newfunction(:parseyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-DOC
    @summary
      This function accepts YAML as a string and converts it into the correct
      Puppet structure.

    @return
      converted YAML into Puppet structure

    > *Note:*
      The optional second argument can be used to pass a default value that will
      be returned if the parsing of YAML string have failed.
  DOC
             ) do |arguments|
    raise ArgumentError, 'Wrong number of arguments. 1 or 2 arguments should be provided.' unless arguments.length >= 1
    require 'yaml'

    begin
      YAML.load(arguments[0]) || arguments[1] # rubocop:disable Security/YAMLLoad : using YAML.safe_load causes the code to break
      # in ruby 1.9.3 Psych::SyntaxError is a RuntimeException
      # this still needs to catch that and work also on rubies that
      # do not have Psych available.
    rescue StandardError, Psych::SyntaxError => e # rubocop:disable Lint/ShadowedException : See above
      raise e unless arguments[1]
      arguments[1]
    end
  end
end

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