There's a 'validate' define that can cover global cases for each type.
This will probably do what you want it to.
Trevor
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, September 7, 2012 8:04:57 AM UTC-5, Jakov Sosic wrote:
>>
>> On 09/05/2012 08:07 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote:
>> > newparam(:destdir) do
>> > desc "The link of the distro ISO image."
>> > validate do |value|
>> > unless Pathname.new(value).absolute?
>> > raise ArgumentError, "Full pathname must be set"
>> > end
>> > end
>> > end
>>
>>
>> > cobblerdistro {'CentOS-6.3-x86_64':
>> > ensure => absent,
>> > destdir => '/distro',
>> > }
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe I didn't make my self clear enough.... On a puppet run, if the
>> resource doesn't have destdir defined, i get this error:
>>
>> err:
>>
>> /Stage[main]//Node[sunce.srce.hr]/Cobbler::Add_distro[CentOS-6.3-x86_64]/Cobblerdistro[CentOS-6.3-x86_64]:
>> Could not evaluate: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass
>>
>> I would like to inform user what the problem is rather then print out
>> some obscure message like this one.
>>
>> So, how can I do this from type definition ruby code? Thank you.
>
>
>
> You cannot use the parameter validation hook for this because it is invoked
> only when a value is set. The case you want to trap is exactly the case to
> which that hook does not apply.
>
> As far as I know or can tell, there is no hook for what you want --
> basically, whole-resource validation. You can put the validation code into
> your provider(s), at the point where you (first) use the value. That's not
> ideal, but it can get you a better error message (albeit issued on the
> client side, not the master).
>
>
> John
>
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