Does this <https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/inifile> meet your use
case?
On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 07:36:45 UTC+10, Ritesh Nanda wrote:
>
> Hello ,
>
> I was trying to write a custom function which would run on puppet master
> take input a ini file , parse a section of that ini file and assign
> its value to a variable .
> Something like
>
> $test = iniread('example.ini', 'Program', 'path')
>
> This would assign the value to test variable when the functions runs on
> the puppet master.
>
> iniread.rb file looks like
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'inifile'
> module Puppet::Parser::Functions
> newfunction(:iniread, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
> raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'inifile read(): Wrong number of arguments ' +
> "given (#{args.size} for 3)") if args.size != 3
>
> filename = args[0]
> section = args[1]
> key = args[2]
>
> file = IniFile.load(filename)
> data = file[section]
> value = data[key]
> return value
>
> end
> end
>
> It gives an error while running
>
> Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass at
> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/example/manifests/init.pp:45
>
> init.pp has
>
> $test =iniread("example.ini", "Program", "path")
>
>
> Doing that in ruby works
>
> require 'inifile'
> filename = ARGV[0]
> section = ARGV[1]
> key = ARGV[2]
> file = IniFile.load(filename)
> data = file[section]
> InstPath = data[key]
> puts InstPath
>
> Help to this would be really appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ritesh
>
>
>
>
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