On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, at 17:41, Chadwick Banning wrote:
> So for this example, there are some sort of limitations as to what the
> 'vault_lookup' function is able to do internally? I had just assumed that
> as long as the function returned a simple value, what the function does
> internally was open.
>
> As an example, could Deferred be used to read and extract a value from a
> file agent-side?
>
The function can do whatever it wants but needs to return a value and that
value has to be used by a resource and not mixed in with some other strings
etc. In my example deferred as the entire value to a resource property is good,
deferred and then any derived data from it wont work.
You cant for example, as far as I understand it, have the function lookup a
piece of data and then use that data in a template via template() and epp().
Those are processed entirely on the master.
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:12 AM R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, at 15:03, Chadwick Banning wrote:
> > > Would it be safe to consider this in a general context i.e. as enabling
> > > agent-side function execution?
> >
> > I dont think so - for general function calls to be usable you want to get
> > the value and then do some conditional logic on it. or put it in a
> > variable and use it in another resource etc.
> >
> > That is not what this is for, this is a based placeholder to later be
> > replaced by the value - you cannot do any conditionals etc with it.
> >
> > Imagine something like:
> >
> > mysql::user{"bob":
> > password => Deferred(vault_lookup, "bob_pass")
> > }
> >
> > (I am just making this syntax up, this is presumably not how it will look)
> >
> > Here its fine because its a simple interpolation into a value, you cant do
> > more complex things with this design.
> >
> > Anyway thats my understanding, Henrik might chime in too
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