Could you provide the output of puppet agent --trace in a pastebin to
accompany this?
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Guy Matz <gm...@matz.org> wrote:
> hi! Does anyone have any advice on debugging a new custom type?
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated . . .
>
> BTW, I'm getting the error:
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Could not render to pson: undefined method `merge' for []:Array
>
> with some very rough code.
>
> The Type (vncserver.rb):
> module Puppet
> newtype(:vncserver) do
>
> ensurable
>
> newproperty(:port) do
> desc "The vnc servers port assignment. Will be +5900 on the server"
> validate do |value|
> unless value.is_i?
> raise Puppet::Error, "Invalid Port number"
> end
> end
> end
>
> newproperty(:username) do
> desc "The user who will own the VNC session."
> isnamevar
> validate do |value|
> unless value !~ /\s/
> raise Puppet::Error, "Must be a valid username. No spaces,
> please."
> end
> end
> end
>
> newproperty(:geometry) do
> desc "Resolution for VNC, in XxY, e.g. 1024x768."
> validate do |value|
> unless value !~ /^\d*x\d*$/
> raise Puppet::Error, "Must be a valid geometry. e.g., 1024x768."
> end
> end
> end
>
> newparam(:password) do
> desc "Password to be put into users .vnc/passwd."
> validate do |value|
> unless hostpart =~ /^([\d\w]+|[\d\w][\d\w\-]+[\d\w])$/
> raise Puppet::Error, "Invalid host name"
> end
> end
> end
>
> newparam(:args) do
> desc "Optional arguments to be added to the vncserver command-line."
> end
> end
>
> @doc = "Installs and manages entries for vncservers. For Redhat-bases
> systems, and likely many others, these entries will be in
> /etc/sysconfig/vncservers."
>
> end
>
>
> The Provider (parsed.rb):
> require 'puppet/provider/parsedfile'
>
> vncservers = "/etc/sysconfig/vncservers"
>
> Puppet::Type.type(:vncserver).provide(:parsed,
> :parent =>
> Puppet::Provider::ParsedFile,
> :default_target => vncservers,
> :filetype => :flat
> ) do
>
> desc "The vncserver provider that uses the ParsedFile class"
>
> confine :exists => vncservers
> text_line :comment, :match => /^#/;
> text_line :blank, :match => /\s*$/;
>
> text_line :blank, :match => /\s*$/;
>
> record_line :parsed, :fields => %w{vncservers}, :match =>
> /^VNCSERVERS="(.*)"/
>
> end
>
>
> And The Manifest:
> class vncserver {
>
> include common::vnc
>
>
> package {
> 'tigervnc-server':
> ensure => 'installed';
> }
>
> vncserver {
> 'gmatz':
> port => '92',
> geometry => '1024x768',
> password => 'gmatz';
> }
> }
>
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