puppetlabs-stdlib/fact.rb
Krzysztof Wilczynski 399dd8cca8 First version. A function for Puppet that allows to retrieve a fact from Facter
easily instead of resorting to awful "inline_template" use-and-abuse practices.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>
2011-04-23 01:28:11 +01:00

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#
# fact.rb
#
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:fact, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
This function will retrieve fact from Facter based on the fact name
and expose it for further use within Puppet manifest file ...
For example:
Given the following sample manifest:
define partitions {
$result = split(fact("partitions_${name}"), ',')
notice $result
partition { $result: }
}
define partition {
notice $name
}
$available_disks = split($disks, ',')
partitions { $available_disks: }
This will produce the following:
notice: Scope(Partitions[hda]): hda1 hda2
notice: Scope(Partition[hda1]): hda1
notice: Scope(Partition[hda2]): hda2
Which allows you to avoid resorting to the following:
$fact = "partitions_${name}"
$result = split(inline_template("<%= scope.lookupvar(fact) %>"), ',')
Taking out the need for using "inline_template" in the "partitions" define above.
EOS
) do |arguments|
raise(Puppet::ParseError, "Wrong number of arguments " +
"given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size < 1
fact = arguments[0]
raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'You must provide fact name') if fact.empty?
result = lookupvar(fact) # Get the value of interest from Facter ...
if not result or result.empty?
raise(Puppet::ParseError, "Unable to retrieve fact `#{fact}'")
end
return result
end
end
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