----- "Matt Wise" <w...@wiredgeek.net> wrote: > 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.
I've patched the 2.6.x extlookup to support hashes but people dont seem to keen on the idea, feel free to vote on the ticket http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4433 > > —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. -- R.I.Pienaar -- 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.
