On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:25:12 PM UTC-5, Brian Gupta wrote: > > And is the following the best way to support this: (ie: will it be > supported for the foreseeable future.) > > $modulepath/modulename/manifests/parentclass/subclassname.pp the way > the autoloader supports this? >
Yes. The autoloader expects to find a class named "module::parent::subclass" in $modulepath/module/manifests/parent/subclass.pp. I have no inside knowledge about any future direction for the autoloader, but I would be surprised if its behavior in that regard changed any time soon. > > Long story short, I can test and see if it works, but I don't want to > trust that as a way to see if something is a supported patttern, as > historically many things that work, aren't neccesarily supported. > > Also can and should I have more than one init.pp files in a module? > > e.g. > $modulepath/modulename/manifests/init.pp > $modulepath/modulename/manifests/parentclass/init.pp > As far as I know, only the init.pp directly in the manifests/ directory is special. The other one would be the expected location of a class named modulename::parentclass::init. > I did a bit of reading in the puppetdocs, and it seems where i am > using parentclass, there is a namespace feature called > "implementation", which basically allows one to extend the namespace, > but it is unclear if "implementation" can also be a class? From docs: > "This directory’s name affects the class names beneath it." > I'm not familiar with that bit. Can you provide a link? > > I believe I don't need both to be supported, and am largely looking at > this as a way to organize some of our overloaded modules, that don't > make sense to be broken out into separate modules. > Do note that the autoloader cares only about names and name segments (I'm pretty sure), not about classes corresponding to intermediate name segments. In other words, you can have a class mymodule::one::two::three in file mymodule/manifests/one/two/three.pp regardless of whether class mymodule::one or mymodule::one::two exist. If classes corresponding to those intermediate namespaces exist then no special relationship between them and the ultimate class is required or expected. In particular, there does not need to be any subclassing involved. John -- 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/-/fyZVt7RS3lEJ. 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.
