Agreed... I use extlookup for our external arrays — but I cannot use it for hash's. Hashes are sometimes the only sane way to go, so I'm hoping to see more advanced hash support soon. Really we have a case where we're going to be pulling live data from a SQL database during each run, and dumping it out in a hash format of some kind is the best thing for our use-case.
—Matt On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Dennis Hoppe wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Am 22.10.2010 02:41, schrieb Richard Crowley: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Matt Wise <w...@wiredgeek.net> wrote: >>> I have a scenario where I'd like to pull in a hash table from an external >>> file (really, a generate() function.. but for testing purposes, a file will >>> do)... is there any way to do that? >> >> You probably want the extlookup function: >> >> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#extlookup > > i do not think that "extlookup" is the solution we are looking for, > because it is not powerful enough. > > For some kind of modules you will need the relation between host an ip, > or host an service. At the moment, i am using a bunch of if/else cases, > but a hash or function which is parsing a *.yaml file would be more > powerful. > > The Debian project has found a nice way to handle this. > > http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-puppet.git;a=blob_plain;f=manifests/site.pp;hb=HEAD > > http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-puppet.git;a=tree;f=files/etc/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/functions;hb=HEAD > > Regards, Dennis > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
