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When trying to import facts with patches from foreman_chef 0.9.0 i get the following, when foreman tries to import the NIC facts

(linebreaks inserted for readability)

| ActiveRecord::ValueTooLong: Mysql2::Error: Data too long for column 'action' at row 1: UPDATE `foreman_tasks_tasks` 
SET `state` = 'planning', `result` = 'pending', `started_at` = '2018-09-30 14:57:42', `label` = 
'Actions::ForemanChef::Host::Update', `action` = 'Update host undefined method `[]\' for nil:NilClass 
(NoMethodError)\n/usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.3.0/gems/foreman_chef-0.8.1/app/lib/actions/foreman_chef/host/update.rb:29:in `humanized_input\'
\n/usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.3.0/gems/foreman-tasks-0.13.2/app/models/foreman_tasks/task/dynflow_task.rb:157:in `get_humanized\'

This is due to that the variable "input" is empty when /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.3.0/gems/foreman_chef-0.8.1/app/lib/actions/foreman_chef/host/update.rb gets called with the network card. (some other facts before the nic works fine)

after modifying line 29 in the file to look like this:

          input[:host][:name] unless input.empty?

The imports work, but the correct approach would of course be to fix why input is empty to begin with, can't figure that out myself unfortunately.

To test, use the attached "full-chef.json" facts (after editing the name-property and upload with curl:

curl -u admin:password -v -d @/etc/foreman/full-chef.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:3000/api/hosts/facts