On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Dick Davies
<rasput...@hellooperator.net> wrote:
>
> If I have something like this:
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> define bar($thing="/tmp/$name") {
> file { $thing: ensure => present }
> }
>
>
> class foo { somedef{ "bar": } }
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> puppet will try to create a file called '/tmp/foo' , not /tmp/bar.
> It seems like if I try to access $name inside the 'default arguments'
> bit of a definition,
> it's set to the enclosing class.
>
> I want to get at the name of the definition ('bar' in the above example).
>
> Once i'm inside the body of the definition, $name seems to be set correctly
> (inside templates called from the definition, etc.).
>
> [I'm writing an apache module, and want to infer a default docroot of
> '/docroot/www-vhostname',
> but allow an option to override it.
>
> how can I do that ? (and is this a bug?)
This isn't a bug. It is a natural consequence of scoping.
define bar() {
$thing = "/tmp/$name"
file { $thing: ensure => present }
}
should do what you want.
--Paul
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