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Wouldn't this possibly have unintended consequences, or would the scope
of the overrides be restricted to the define in this case?
Trevor
On 12/22/2009 08:14 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> 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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