That seems to work! The message about the compiler being invoked is a bit worrying through.

Amusingly, I'm also working on types for jenkins but with the cli jar and groovy script fragments instead of the rest API.

-Josh

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On 04/15/2015 11:03 AM, Branan Riley wrote:
`select` may be the method you want.
https://github.com/branan/puppet-jenkins/blob/jenkins_agent_type/lib/puppet/provider/jenkins_agent/json.rb#L50
is my code from a few years ago.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Joshua Hoblitt <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Branna,

Under 3.7.5, that gives me a Puppet::Indirector::Face object.
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/3.7.5/lib/puppet/
indirector/face.rb

I'm not sure where to go from there as I don't want to download a new new
catalog, and at least from pry under the resource face, #find seems to
generate garbage catalogs. Any ideas?

-Josh

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On 04/15/2015 09:42 AM, Branan Riley wrote:

In the past I have done this with `Puppet::Face[:catalog, :current]`

I did this in a prototype back for Puppet 2.7, so I have no idea if it
still works, and I can't promise that it will continue to work in the
future.

-- Branna

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Joshua hoblitt <[email protected]> wrote:

  I desire the ability to access DSL class parameters from within a
provider.  Similar to the pattern that is frequently seen with DSL
defined
types and a controlling class within a module.  AFAIK, the alternatives
for
sharing data are ugly.  Including: forcing the user to declare facts via
ENC or an external fact source, using a file resource for "local IPC" (or
sysv shm...), or adding parameters to the type and using a DSL defined
type
as wrapper.  The later is the least objectionable but feels like it
should
be unnecessary; the data is already in the catalog.

Accessing the catalog from within a provider instance isn't very
difficult
since the instantiated resource has an accessor for it.  Eg.
`resource.catalog`  Where I've hit a roadblock is trying to access the
catalog from a class method.  I've spent several hours poking at classes
looking for an instance I could pry into or a singleton I could access
without much luck.  There was a suggestion on #puppet that it might be
possible to obtain it via the indirector.  I don't understand the
indirection facility but I don't believe it has knowledge beyond the name
of the catalog class.  Eg. `Puppet::Indirector::
Indirection.instance(:catalog).instance_variable_get(:@
indirected_class).class`
Perhaps I'm in error?  I also failed to identify a reference back to the
current transaction.

My last resort was to try passing the catalog from the resource to the
provider as class data.  This is problematic in that I can't identify a
place to "hook" in that runs after both `Puppet::Util::ClassGen.
genclass`
and the providers are associated with a type but before the provider's
class instances method is called.  I've been resisting the temptation to
stuff something into the `Puppet::Type.provide` method's option hash and
monkey patching my way to victory...

I did have some limited success in that I was able to get into the
catalog
from `::prefetch` by adding class accessors for `catalog` to the provider
and dropping this snippet into an autorequire block.

    if provider.class.respond_to?(:catalog)
      provider.class.catalog = catalog
    end

Of course, where I want access to the catalog data is from `::instances`.
Have I missed something obvious?

Cheers,

-Josh

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