----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Pounsett" <matt.pouns...@gmail.com>
> To: "puppet-users" <puppet-users@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, 11 July, 2016 16:26:42
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: most idiomatic way to set resource defaults
> On Friday, 8 July 2016 04:27:26 UTC-4, Peter Faller wrote:
>>
>> Are you using the create_resources function to instantiate the resources?
>> It takes a third argument containing default values:
>>
>> $widgets = hiera('widgets', {})
>> $widget_defaults = hiera('widget_defaults', {})
>> create_resources(::widget, $widgets, $widget_defaults)
>>
>
> I haven't go so far as to write that part yet, but I was thinking of
> something along those lines. Because of the varying defaults, I would
> actually need to iterate over the customer names.
>
> $widgets = hiera('widgets', {})
> $widget_defaults = hiera('widget_defaults', {})
> $widgets.each |String $customer, Hash $data| { create_resources( ::widget,
> $widgets[$customer], $widget_defaults[$customer] }
>
> The problem I can't solve with this approach is that which customer's
> widgets I'm creating is actually an important attribute of the widget type,
> as it relates to where files get created, etc. This is why I was wondering
> if there was a better way to organize the data in Hiera. I considered
> reformatting the 'widgets' dictionary into a list so that the customer name
> is an attribute, not a key:
>
> $widgets = hiera('widgets', [])
> $widget_defaults = hiera('widget_defaults', {})
> $widget_defaults.each |String $customer, Hash $defaults| {
> $widget_data = $widgets.filter |$data| { $data['customer'] == $customer }
> create_resources( ::widget, $widget_data, $widget_defaults[$customer])
> }
>
> That gets repetitive and doesn't organize as well, however.
I have a bunch of examples @
https://www.devco.net/archives/2015/12/16/iterating-in-puppet.php
something there might help, best avoid create_resources in puppet 4 :)
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