Hi help-cfengine,
Happy winter/summer solstice (depending on which hemisphere you live in)!
I am trying to create an associative array using strings containing
spaces as indices. Problem is, it doesn't seem to work with getindices,
although cf-promises doesn't complain about it.
Here's some example code:
----
body common control {
bundlesequence => { "main" };
}
bundle agent main {
vars:
"myarray[entry one]" string => "One";
"myarray[entry two]" string => "Two";
"myarray[entry three]" string => "Three";
"myarray_indices" slist => getindices(myarray);
reports:
cfengine_3_1_2::
"a myarray index: $(myarray_indices)";
}
----
This returns: "R: a myarray index: entr" as opposed to what you might
expect.
Because it is possible to address arrays with these keys (e.g.
$(myarray[entry three]) works) I assume this is a problem with
getindices, but maybe array keys were not supposed to have spaces... If
that's so, it would be nice if cf-promises raised an error if they were
used.
Since a frequent question is "what are you trying to do with this?", I'm
trying to create an edit_line bundle in the style of
"set_variable_values" from cfengine_stdlib.cf, using keys with
whitespace in them, for editing files like /etc/security/limits.conf.
For example:
vars:
"limits_conf[oracle soft nproc]" string => "2047";
"limits_conf[oracle hard nproc]" string => "16384";
"limits_conf[oracle soft nofile]" string => "4096";
files:
"/etc/security/limits.conf"
edit_line => set_variable_values_whitespace("main.limits_conf");
... hopefully you get the idea. Thanks for any help.
Best,
Jim Lawson
University of Vermont
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