Alas, this problem is not solvable at present. The solution will be in
cfengine 3. It requires a different structure with a lot of reorganization.
sorry
Mark
Quoting Chip Seraphine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've learned, to my delight, that I can conditionally add more key-val
> pairs into an associative array:
>
> control:
> hashtable= ( A("key1","value1") A("key2","value2") )
>
> solaris::
> hashtable= ( A ("solaris_specific_thingie","value3") )
>
>
> Great! The problem comes when it is time to extract these values. What
> I desperately need is something
> that expands to all the keys in the associative array, but I can't find
> such an animal. Any ideas?
>
> Here's what I am currently doing:
>
> shellcommands:
> !solaris::
> "/some/script/that/uses/classes/as/args.sh $(hashtable[key1])
> $(hashtable[key2])"
> solaris::
> "/some/script/that/uses/classes/as/args.sh \
> $(hashtable[key1]) $(hashtable[key2])
> $(hashtable[solaris_specific_thingie])"
>
>
> Obviously, this is not a good way to go; there is a lot of repeat
> typing, and any time I add a key I have to add it to the output section
> as well. Here's what I would like to do:
>
>
> shellcommands:
> any::
> "/some/script/that/uses/classes/as/args.sh $(hashtable[*])"
>
> ....where $(hashtable[*]) expands to everything in the hashtable. I'd
> be happy with just about any syntactic device that did not require me to
> track all of my keys.
>
> I've also tried keep track of keys in a list variable, but I couldn't
> get the iteration to work when the iterated variable is inside the
> associative [brackets].
>
> Has anyone come up with a clever way around this problem?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Chip Seraphine
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>
>
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