On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:29:55 PM UTC-5, ZJE wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:02:10 PM UTC-5, ZJE wrote: >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:29:52 PM UTC-5, Jeff McCune wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Nan Liu <> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:34 AM, ZJE <> wrote: >>>> > I'd like to reuse the same ruby code in a type across all the >>>> providers. For >>>> > the type I'm writing, a certain portion of the "exists?" method would >>>> be >>>> > repeated across all providers. From looking at the documentation, >>>> > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_types.html, it's not quite >>>> clear >>>> > how I can accomplish this. I've looked at writing a function, but >>>> that >>>> > seems to be for a larger scope than I'd like (only the providers in >>>> that >>>> > module would need this code) and requires a restart of the puppet >>>> master. >>>> >>>> Look at puppetlabs registry provider[1] for an example where >>>> modules/registry is shared between registry_key and registry_value. >>> >>> >>> We've actually got this wrong in the registry module currently. Shared >>> utility code should not go into the Puppet namespace at all. >>> >>> The convention we've "standardized" [1] on is: >>> >>> "Start with PuppetX, put the CamelCase of your author name (from the >>> Modulefile), then put the actual CamelCase of your module name" >>> >>> So the registry module should be PuppetX::PuppetLabs::Registry living >>> in '<modulepath>/registry/lib/puppet_x/puppet_labs/registry.rb' >>> >>> Puppet::Modules::Registry is a bad example and should not be followed. >>> >>> [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14149 >>> >>> -Jeff >>> >> >> Thanks Nan and Jeff for the replies! I'm new to both puppet and ruby, so >> let me sketch out what I'm thinking I should do based on the replies. >> >> Let's say I'm creating a type FOO in module MODULE. I should then create >> a file in $confdir/modules/MODULE/lib/puppet/shared.rb >> Inside this shared.rb, I would then implement my shared methods in the >> PuppetX::ZJE::FOO module >> >> For some additional info, I'm using puppet 3.0.0rc3 >> Thanks again for all the help! >> > > Sorry, don't know how I missed the path in your earlier code - so it > should be: > <modulepath>/MODULE/lib/puppet_x/ZJE/shared.rb? > > Thanks! > >
I'm still a little confused - is there an example of a type/provider where this is done correctly? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/1124IRjcXJ8J. 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.
