On 2015-15-01 15:53, jcbollinger wrote:
On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 8:08:25 PM UTC-6, Felix.Frank wrote:
On 01/14/2015 03:47 PM, Jason Wever wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I having a problem in where I'm defining a File Type and setting the
> requires parameter to use a variable name (e.g. requires => $foo).
> However, when I do this, the Puppet run doesn't act like it's
> translating the variable into what it should be set to. $foo should
> resolve to either Class['a'] or Class['b'] depending on a particular
> fact, but the File Type is being processed by Puppet before
Class['a']
> or Class['b'] has been processed.
>
> Is it possible to use a variable as the value for the requires
> parameter in a File Type?
>
> I've tried this with Puppet versions 3.5.1 and 3.6.1 but no
change in
> behavior. Haven't tried a 3.7.x.
>
> Thanks,
Hi,
this is not an ordering issue.
Perhaps not.
$foo = 'Class["a"]'
The above string is not blessed into a class reference when used as the
value for an ensure parameter (apparently). Not quoting it makes no
difference.
Are you sure that quoting vs. not quoting doesn't make a difference? At
least with the future parser, the unquoted version ought to be a bona
fide class reference in any context, and I didn't think that was new.
Or are you suggesting that the reference gets stringified upon
assignment to a variable? I've never done much along these lines, but
that sounds surprising and a bit inconsistent to me.
The 3x catalog/resource API requires that type references are indeed
stringified. Internally that string is then turned into a Resource
instance where only type and title are filled in.
So, yeah, atm, there is no difference between a quoted reference and a
real resource type reference. There will be when we in a later version
of puppet improve the catalog and compiler (although the string type
will most likely still be supported, it will be more efficient to use a
type).
- henrik
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