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#
# parsejson.rb
#

module Puppet::Parser::Functions
  newfunction(:parsejson, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
This function accepts JSON as a string and converts it into the correct
Puppet structure.

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

    begin
      PSON::load(arguments[0]) || arguments[1]
    rescue StandardError => e
      if arguments[1]
        arguments[1]
      else
        raise e
      end
    end

  end
end

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