The data type system is very hard to understand. Many people don't
understand why
type_of([1,2,3]) == Array
will fail, but
type_of([1,2,3]) <= Array
passes. This does a simpler validation that doesn't rely on explicit
data types. Instead, use
$foo = [1,2,3]
if $foo.is_a(Array) {
notify { 'This is an array': }
}
This is based on code by Ben Ford <ben.ford@puppetlabs.com>.
* Added acceptance tests
* Added dispatch
* Improved unit tests
* Added docs to README
* previously the str2bool function did not accept 'TRUE' as a bool
type. This causes the function to now accept TRUE, FALSE strings
as a boolean type in order to be converted to a proper boolean.
* This would also cause Y,N, YES, NO to be accepted as boolean types
as well.
Add spec tests to test the new functionality:
*Case for 3 arrays.
*Case for 4 arrays.
Modify README to note new functionality.
This is for issue MODULE-2456, follow the precedent of MODULE-444.
This change allows union to be much more useful, unioning many arrays
in one line rather than in n lines. Additionally, as this is only added
functionality, and does not affect the 2 array case that all modules
currently using array are using, it should not affect any existing
modules utilizing union.
This is now useful, for example, for merging many arrays of resources
(eg: packages.) to generate just one list with no duplicates, to avoid
duplicate resource declarations.
Split the `destroy` method of the file_type::ruby provider into two
private methods: `handle_destroy_line` which is the same as the previous
`destroy` method, and `handle_destroy_with_match` which will destroy any
line which matches the `match` parameter, raising an error if multiple
lines match and the `multiple` parameter is not `true`. This new
behavior is only used if the new boolean parameter `match_for_absence`
is `true` (it defaults to `false`).
Puppet's boolean parameter type is only available in Puppet 3.3 and
higher, so change file_type's new "replace" parameter to a regular
parameter with true and false as possible values. This matches the
existing "multiple" parameter.
This function loads the metadata.json into a puppet variable. This enables a number of neat things such as:
* Which version of the module am I using? 2.x? 3.x?
* Which author of the module am I using? puppetlabs? example42?
