I would personally take the route of explicitly looking up the hiera data,
along these lines:
class foo ($app_user = 'bar') {
$dir = hiera("${app_user}::etc_dir")
file { "/etc/${dir}":
...
}
}
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Dan White <d_e_wh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>
> It may take a step in the middle like this:
>
> class foo ( $app_user = 'bar' ) {
>
> $where = "/etc/${app_user::etc_dir}"
>
> file { $where :
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '0644
> }
>
> Good luck. We are all here to share the info.
>
>
> “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)
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Guy Matz <guym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi! I have a parameterized class that accepts a few parameters, one of
> which I would like to use in the retrieval of hiera data, e.g.
> class foo ( $app_user = 'bar' ) {
> file { "/etc/${app_user::etc_dir}":
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '0644
> }
>
> so app_user should get passed to the class, then ${app_user}::etc_dir
> should get resolved by hiera, If I pass in nagios as app_user, then
> nagios::etc_dir should be looked up in hiera. I can't find the right
> combination of curly braces to get this to work. Should it work?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Guy
>
>
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