The info you are asking for is at the top of the Type Reference page: The namevar is the parameter used to uniquely identify a type instance. This is the parameter that gets assigned when a string is provided before the colon in a type declaration. In general, only developers will need to worry about which parameter is the namevar.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellison Marks" <gty...@gmail.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:49:49 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Slight oversight in the type documentation Yes, And while the command line tools and looking at the code are as accurate as ever, it would be nice to find that info on the type page as well. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:44:50 PM UTC-8, Gary Larizza wrote: Hi Ellison, You can do `puppet decribe <type>` from the command line and it should tell you which attribute is the namevar for that type. Most types use 'name' for their namevar, but some (like file) do not. Hope that helps! On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Ellison Marks < gty...@gmail.com > wrote: So I was looking at the type reference, and noticed that for a lot of the types, no namevar was listed. When I checked the types in the code, for each of those omissions, the namevar was simply "name". Now, it might be self evident that this is the case, but a little documentation couldn't hurt, If not in each type, at least in the section where it describes what namevars are. Something like: "If namevar is not specified, assumed that it is 'name'". -- 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/-/xtGOPopeEHoJ . To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en . -- Gary Larizza Professional Services Engineer Puppet Labs -- 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/-/SdYgGWyMuzsJ . 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.
