Sven Mueller wrote:
I really hate replying to myself when i don't actually have anything to
add. But I'm still at a loss about the solution to the problems below.
Can't anyone help?
Regards,
Sven
> I tried writing a type to handle a cobbler repository (because it is the
> first thing cobbler wants to see if you start to define a system).
> However, I have two problems:
>
> 1) (this is a theoretical question for now)
>
> If I understand types (for now without providers) correctly, if I have a
> property ensure, it needs a "def retrieve" which returns the current
> state of the resource. These returned states should match the "newvalue"
> definitions I provide in the source. So if I have
>
> newvalue :present
> newvalue :absent
> newvalue :insync
>
> with accompanying code, the following should work for retrieve:
>
> def retrieve
> ret=`cobbler repo list | \
> grep -qE '(^|[[:space:]])#{resource[:name]}([[:space:]]|$)';\
> echo $?`
> if ( not ret == 0)
> :absent
> else
> if insync?
> :insync
> else
> :present
> end
> end
> end
>
> (As long as I have a working insync? definition)
> Is this correct so far? If I defined insync? inside the same newproperty
> (:ensure in this case), should I access it as done above, or should I
> use "self.insync?" or something else?
>
> 2)
> I defined retrieve as listed above (full source of the cobbler_repo.rb
> is at http://mail.incase.de/cobbler_repo.rb, it surely isn't the best
> code I ever wrote, but I can't see why it shouldn't work) and I get:
>
> Tue Oct 07 15:14:02 +0200 2008
> //Node[testinst01]/cobbler/Cobbler_repo[CentOS5_i386] (err): Failed to
> retrieve current state of resource: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
>
>
> Any hint what I did wrong? What passes one argument to which
> function/method and what do I have to do to resolve this. I'm really at
> a loss here.
>
> regards,
> Sven
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