Thanks, I've seen that work but the trouble is I want to be able to
pass in a $docroot option,
or default to something if one is not there; I suppose I can probably
get around it by checking
if $docroot is defined and if not setting it or something?
Thanks again.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Paul Lathrop <paul.lath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Dick Davies
> <rasput...@hellooperator.net> wrote:
>>
>> If I have something like this:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> define bar($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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