Fixing the rest of #705, except for the env stuff, which I was not able to reproduce.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@2697 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Puppet::Type.type(:cron).provide(:crontab,
         }
 
     crontab = record_line :crontab, :fields => %w{minute hour monthday month weekday command},
+        :match => %r{^(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.+)$},
         :optional => %w{minute hour weekday month monthday}, :absent => "*"
 
     class << crontab

lib/puppet/type/cron.rb

@@ -301,8 +301,12 @@ Puppet::Type.newtype(:cron) do
         end
 
         def is_to_s(newvalue)
-            if newvalue
-                newvalue.join(",")
+            if newvalue 
+                if newvalue.is_a?(Array)
+                    newvalue.join(",")
+                else
+                    newvalue
+                end
             else
                 nil
             end

lib/puppet/util/fileparsing.rb

@@ -168,8 +168,12 @@ module Puppet::Util::FileParsing
             if match = regex.match(line)
                 fields = []
                 ret = {}
-                record.fields.zip(match.captures).each do |f, v|
-                    ret[f] = v
+                record.fields.zip(match.captures).each do |field, value|
+                    if value == record.absent 
+                        ret[field] = :absent
+                    else
+                        ret[field] = value
+                    end
                 end
             else
                 nil

test/ral/types/cron.rb

@@ -487,6 +487,22 @@ class TestCron < Test::Unit::TestCase
                 "target did not default to user with crontab")
         end
     end
+
+    # #705 - make sure extra spaces don't screw things up
+    def test_spaces_in_command
+        string = "echo   multiple  spaces"
+        cron = @crontype.create(:name => "testing", :command => string)
+        assert_apply(cron)
+
+        cron.class.clear
+        cron = @crontype.create(:name => "testing", :command => string)
+        # Now make sure that it's correctly in sync
+        cron.provider.class.prefetch("testing" => cron)
+        properties = cron.retrieve
+        command, result = properties.find { |prop, value| prop.name == :command }
+        assert_equal(string, result, "Cron did not pick up extra spaces in command")
+        assert(command.insync?(string), "Command changed with multiple spaces")
+    end
 end