Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Bundle meta data
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25271,25282#msg-25282
Erik Mouw Wrote:
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> In my opinion it would be better to introduce an
> optional "metadata" promise type.
> In that way you wouldn't break existing
> installations. Something like:
>
> metadata:
> author => "kermit";
> email => "ker...@muppetshow.example.com";
> version => "42";
> purpose => "Make sure Miss Piggy doesn't get
> angry";
> comment => "Please don't let her read this!";
What about a small adjustment to make it adhere the CF3 syntax:
metadata:
"author" value => "kermit";
"email" value => "ker...@muppetshow.example.com";
"version" value => "42";
"purpose" value => "Make sure Miss Piggy doesn't get angry";
"comment" value => "Please don't let her read this!";
This would make it look very much like vars:, but make it explicit that it is
metadata, avoid naming clashes and make it possible to require certain fields
(e.g. body agent control, require_metadata => { "author", "email" }). You can
also add the other common promise attributes like comment and handle to
describe each key,value further.
I would like to support slists here too, though, in case some meta-data is
better expressed by those. Comments?
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