There are a couple of ways to achieve this.
You can write a shuffle function in Ruby, take a copy of the input array
and return a shuffled copy using Fischer-Yate algorithm.
Or write in Puppet using random numbers and sorting.
Create an array of equal length of the original, containing tuples of
value and a *unique* random number. This array is then sorted on the
random value. Here as how that can be done:
function shuffle($original) {
generate_unique_random(size($original))
.map() |$i, $random | { [$random, $original[$i]] }
.sort() |$a, $b| { compare($a[0], $b[0])}
.map() |$pair| { $pair[1] }
}
['blue', 'red', 'green'].shuffle.notice()
Now you need to write the unique random function. This is a bit
difficult in puppet as there is no unbound iteration (worst case you
could have a very long series of exactly the same value). What you can
do however is generate more values (with a wide spread), unique them and
then slice them to the desires size. Here I multiply by 3 and spread
result over 100000.
function generate_unique_random($size) {
($size * 3).map |$seed| {
fqdn_rand(100000 * $size, $seed)}
.unique()[0, $size]
}
Output from the above:
Notice: Scope(Class[main]): [red, blue, green]
The shuffle is stable per node (you always get the same result).
Hope that helps
- henrik
On 2020-06-10 13:12, Albert Shih wrote:
Hi everyone
I try to do a very simple shuffle in a array but I need the shuffle to by
repeatable like fqdn_rand.
In any other langage it's seem very simple to do a Fischer-Yate but only
with map/reduce like I cannot figure out how to do that.
Regards.
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