David Schmitt

I'm certainly in no hurry, thanks for your encouragement. I've started poking around the edges of the problem in code-form over the weekend, and the first step only needs a...

I downgraded back to 20.22.7 for now. Thank `$deity` for backups :-D

*Writing* boolean properties, yes. Can't do much about core puppet being a jerk, though. That's @joshcooper's sisyphus.

Updated to the second option I've found to avoid the performance impact that #9187 fixed

rebased/deconflicted this and addressed rustfmt complaint

There's #728 which adds *some* error detection and handling. If this PR is to be merged, it'll need to be rebased and de-conflicted with that change first.

Hi, I just uploaded https://crates.io/crates/egads which might be useful for this.

Hi! It's been a hectic day today, so I still need to do an in-depth review pass, but this very much looks like what I had in mind. D.

This seems to have upset the tests, please look into that. Also the indentation is off.

I've recently fixed a similar problem here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java/commit/dadc7a6c2271f34ccacd70ba5210810cd2a336ba Note how the tests need to stub `:value` explicitely. It is not a very clean solution, but the best I can currently...