----- Original Message -----
> From: "jcbollinger" <john.bollin...@stjude.org>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:43:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Profiles, Hiera, and
> create_resources('class','...')
>
>
>
> On Monday, January 14, 2013 9:32:52 AM UTC-6, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "jcbollinger"
> > > To: puppet...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:25:34 PM
> > > Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Profiles, Hiera, and
> > create_resources('class','...')
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Friday, January 11, 2013 2:14:46 PM UTC-6, Eric Sakowski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > We've recently started exploring the role / profile / component module
> > > > described by Craig Dunn in his blog here:
> > > > http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/05/239/ and discussed on the list the
> > other
> > > > day. As I was implementing this for
> > > > a profile using the apache module, I realized that I could make
> > another
> > > > refinement to our approach by using
> > > > create_resources('class','<module name>') to pull our hiera data into
> > the
> > > > apache class and override any defaults needed.
> > > > It looks good to me but there are some concerns that it will come back
> > and
> > > > bite us in ways we don't expect
> > > > later on, when updating to Puppet 3.0.
> > >
> > >
> > > Good news: it's unlikely that this will bite you later on.
> > > Bad news: that's because it will bite you now.
> > >
> > > Classes are not resources, and the create_resources() function does not
> > > work with them.
> > >
> >
> > sure it does - just like any other resources.
> >
> > class x($msg) { notify{$msg: } }
> >
> > create_resources("class", {"x" => {"msg" => "hello world"}})
> >
> > will produce:
> >
> > Notice: hello world
> > Notice: /Stage[main]/X/Notify[hello world]/message: defined 'message'
> > as 'hello world'
> >
>
>
> My apologies, then. That did not always work. The issue has come up here,
> I think within the past year. Do you know when it changed?
No I am not sure - I dont tend to use create_resources as I consider it about
as bad as eval() :)
I just know I recently went spelunking into that code while doing some prototype
and noticed it worked
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