Nick actually was right - but I then ran into exactly what you're
saying Erik :) I fixed it by using a defined resource in place of the
plain file statement, basically how Nick was saying, and it worked
great.
Thanks for your help guys!
On Jul 14, 1:09 am, Erik Dalén <erik.gustav.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 July 2012 01:22, Nick Fagerlund <nick.fagerl...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
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> > You may be doing something weird, because $name and $title inside a defined
> > type definition should definitely still refer to the instance's title. In
> > fact, I just tested it to be sure:
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> > define my_file ($message) {
> > notify {$title:
> > message => "$message, and the title is still $title",
> > }
> > }
>
> > class my_class {
> > my_file {'the title of the resource, not the class':
> > message => "This is the message",
> > }
> > }
>
> > include my_class
>
> > ...should get you:
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> > notice: This is the message, and the title is still the title of the
> > resource, not the class
> > notice: /Stage[main]/My_class/My_file[the title of the resource, not the
> > class]/Notify[the title of the resource, not the class]/message: defined
> > 'message' as 'This is the message, and the title is still the title of the
> > resource, not the class'
> > notice: Finished catalog run in 0.05 seconds
>
> > Show us what you're doing, maybe?
>
> I think the original poster referred to being able to access the title
> of a resource inside a resource definition (not a defined type). For
> example:
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> class example {
> file { '/tmp/testfile': content => "foo ${name} bar\n",
>
> }
>
> Here $name would refer to "example", but he wants to access the name
> '/tmp/testfile'. But as the resource definition doesn't create a new
> scope there's no new variables in it.
>
> --
> Erik Dalén
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