I was looking through the Puppet style guide for something unrelated, and noticed that it explicitly discourages doing things in this exact manner: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html -> Section 11.9.
Does the style guide need updated then? Justin On Jan 13, 4:17 pm, Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Justin Ellison <jus...@techadvise.com>wrote: > > > I asked in IRC today, and no one could tell me the benefit -- maybe > > puppetlabs or example42 can answer my question. > > > I've seen a handful of pretty bleeding-edge modules combining the use > > of foo::parms, inheritance, and parameterized classes. Here's two > > examples: > > >https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/blob/master/manifests/... > >https://github.com/example42/puppet-openssh/blob/master/manifests/ini... > > > Why use inheritance instead of an 'include foo::params'? Why use > > params at all if the class is parameterized? > > The inheritance allows you to reference the foo::params::bar variable > inside the parameter section of the class definition (the part at the top > where there is '$my_class = $openssh::params::my_class,'. > > Why use parameters? It's a way to set a 'sane default' to the parameters > in the class back to the value that's in the foo::params class. If you > want to override what's set in foo::params, just pass it in the class > declaration. If you want to use the default value in foo::params, just > declare the class by doing 'include <class>' and NOT pass any parameters. > > Does this help? > > > Thanks, > > > Justin > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > -- > > Gary Larizza > Professional Services Engineer > Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
