On 17/08/2012, at 17:19, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Garrett Honeycutt
> <garr...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>> On 8/16/12 10:44 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> So, this has always puzzled me a bit. By convention, init.pp contains
>>> one class, named the same as the module. However, what is the
>>> convention when the module may have multiple external access points?
>>> Say you have a module called 'syslog' which provides both a client and
>>> a server class. I typically have used syslog::server and
>>> syslog::client. I've ended up using this convention more than init.pp
>>> because I don't know when I first put the class together exactly what
>>> it's going to do. In module mymodule, rather than create init.pp with
>>> class mymodule, I'll call it mymodule::base or something and stick it
>>> in base.pp. Confused...
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>
>> Not all classes are meant to be directly included by nodes. A common
>> practice would be having a module where you might have a base class,
>> such as syslog and other sub classes, such as syslog::client and
>> syslog::server. Class syslog would contain resources that were common to
>> both syslog::client and syslog::server (ie: they both have a package and
>> a config file). Both syslog::client and syslog::server might include (or
>> possibly inherit) the syslog class. In this setup, a node might include
>> syslog::server or syslog::client, but not syslog directly. When using
>> this pattern, be sure to comment in your base class that it is not meant
>> to be included directly.
>
> Garrett, thanks. Aware of all that, but I'm not sure you really answer
> my question. :)
>
> Doug.
>
Well you can leave init.pp blank, ie,
class name {
}
Then you can put whatever you like in the module's manifest dir.
I tend to write 90% of modules with the following:
name::config
name::install
name::service
name::client
name::server
All of those refer to individual .pp files of course.
Then something like:
include name::server
HTH
Den
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