On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 04:20:09PM +0200, Jakov Sosic wrote: > On 10/14/2012 03:01 PM, Stefan Schulte wrote: > > If you use "ensurable", puppet will expect the provider to have an > > exists? method and if that returns true your create method will not be > > called so you do not have to check the existance in the create method > > again. > > But then I would have to change all params to properties and add > appropriate methods to provider, but that would both slow it down and > complicate it more... I don't know if it's worth it just for the sake of > log message stating "property changed from A to B" instead of > "cobblersystem created" on every param change. >
Is it possible to run a command to get all the desired information about every systems at once? This way you can implement a prefetch pattern. Basically you create provider instances for each system at once and write the current values in the @property_hash hash. Then your get methods just return the cached value which scales pretty well. > > > If adding interfaces to a new host is exactly the same as changing > > interfaces of an already existing host you can call > > > > interface = resource[:interface] if resoure[:interface] > > I'll try that. > > > > Is your provider dealing with files or does it execute commands? When > > dealing with files I find it is often easier to do all the work in the > > flush method (which is only called if it is implemented by the provider) > > and the other set methods are only updating the @property_hash hash. > > > > So if you want to share your provider code I am always interested ;-) > > Offcourse, I have nothing to hide. Here's the current code: > > http://pastebin.com/f7GFU2qp > > > > -- > Jakov Sosic > www.srce.unizg.hr > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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.
