-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The issue is that, should you call that define more than once, there's no way for Puppet to know which one to use unless it walks directly up the call stack first.
Trevor
On 12/28/2011 09:16 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, December 26, 2011 5:56:26 AM UTC-8, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>>
>> I just ran into an interesting scenario where I didn't know how to
>> scope my variables and I'd just like to share for the crowd.
>>
>> Suppose you have two modules 'foo' and 'bar'. You also have two
>> defines, 'foo::do_stuff' and 'bar::more_stuff'.
>>
>> define foo::do_stuff (
>> $var1 = 'a',
>> $var2 = 'b'
>> ) {
>> bar::more_stuff { 'test': }
>> }
>>
>> define bar::more_stuff (
>> $optional_var = 'ignore'
>> ) {
>> file { '/tmp/test':
>> content => template('bar/random.erb')
>> }
>>
>> +++ random.erb +++
>>
>> var1 = <%= var1 %>
>> var2 = <%= var2 %>
>>
> Have you tried this in your template?
>
> <%= scope.lookupvar('foo::do_stuff::var1') %>
>
> That should let you refer directly to the variable in that define, if I
> understand your setup correctly.
>
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