puppetlabs-stdlib/zip.rb
Krzysztof Wilczynski 5fce8a7f54 Added ability to flatten the resulting array in the function zip.
This would allow for creating hashes on the fly from two arrays.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>
2011-04-30 01:47:41 +01:00

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#
# zip.rb
#
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:zip, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
EOS
) do |arguments|
# Technically we support three arguments but only first is mandatory ...
raise(Puppet::ParseError, "zip(): Wrong number of arguments " +
"given (#{arguments.size} for 2)") if arguments.size < 2
a = arguments[0]
b = arguments[1]
unless a.is_a?(Array) and b.is_a?(Array)
raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'zip(): Requires array to work with')
end
flatten = arguments[2] if arguments[2]
if flatten
klass = flatten.class
# We can have either true or false, or string which resembles boolean ...
unless [FalseClass, TrueClass, String].include?(klass)
raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'zip(): Requires either ' +
'boolean or string to work with')
end
if flatten.is_a?(String)
# We consider all the yes, no, y, n and so on too ...
flatten = case flatten
#
# This is how undef looks like in Puppet ...
# We yield false in this case.
#
when /^$/, '' then false # Empty string will be false ...
when /^(1|t|y|true|yes)$/ then true
when /^(0|f|n|false|no)$/ then false
when /^(undef|undefined)$/ then false # This is not likely to happen ...
else
raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'zip(): Unknown type of boolean given')
end
end
end
result = a.zip(b)
result = flatten ? result.flatten : result
return result
end
end
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