hello,
You can use the ability to set defaults for resources:
define mfile($content = undef, $source = undef) {
if $content {
File[$name] {
content => $content
}
} else {
File[$name] {
source => $source
}
}
file{$name: }
}
----- "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> G'day.
>
> I sometimes want to write a 'define' that wraps some higher level
> behaviour
> around a low level 'file' statement, akin to this:
>
> define example ($source = false, $content = false) {
> file { "/path/to/whatever/${name}":
> ensure => file, source => $source, content => $content,
> notify => Service["some-service"],
> etc, etc, etc
> }
> }
>
> This is great, except it doesn't work. It returns an error that
> source is
> nil, if I specify content, and that is that.
>
> Instead, I get to write out the same file stanza twice, once with
> content and
> once with source, as well as a third stanza that fails when neither is
> set.
>
>
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a standard way to express this
> idiom?
>
> Daniel
>
> ...now someone is gonna tell me that I missed something obvious, but
> that is
> fine with me: saving the time I waste on these is worth enough for me.
> :)
>
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