Some modules or module versions don't have a metadata.json file, but we
might still want to use the load_module_metadata function on them. The
lack of a file can still give us important information. For example, it
might tell us that the version of the module installed is "very old"
even if we can't read the version number directly. This patch adds a
parameter to let the user specify if an empty file is acceptable. To
preserve backwards compatibility it does not change the current default
behavior, which is to raise an error if metadata.json does not exist.
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.
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?
Without this, file_line resource without the `match` parameter but with the `after` param will throw an error if there are multiple matches for the after expression. This patch creates the handling for the `multiple` parameter in handle_create_with_after. This allows you to add a line after the `after` expression if it appears at multiple points in a file.
Updated reference to `file_line` in the README to reflect that the multiple parameter can be set when using `after` and/or `match` as the matching regex.
As mentioned in #270, private is a reserved keyword in the future parser
which is to be released with Puppet 4. As it stands, this function is
not useable with the future parser so it needs to renamed.
This is a breaking change.
