On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:32 -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Grumpus wrote:
>
> >
> > Using puppet 0.24.5 (server and client). I've written a trivial custom
> > function:
> >
> > module Puppet::Parser::Functions
> > newfunction(:seq, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
> > (args[0].to_i .. args[1].to_i).to_a
> > end
> > end
> >
> > It seems to work as I expect when used as an rvalue in assignment to
> > a variable:
> >
> > $somelist = seq(0, 10)
> >
> > But I get errors if I use it in this context:
> >
> >
> > somedef { seq(0, 10):
> > foo => bar,
> > }
> >
> > I get an error like:
> >
> > err: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not parse for environment
> > production: Syntax error at ':'; expected '}' at
> > /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:34
> >
> > Is this expected? A bug?
>
> This is a bug; the resource name is apparently set up to be more
> restrictive than it needs to be.
I didn't think about it before, but this allows resource titles to be
non-deterministic and/or different on each run:
$var = rand()
somedef { $var:
foo => bar,
}
I'm not sure that's a good thing :-)
--
Brice Figureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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