Jira (PUP-4930) Provide helpful error message when provider does not have instances defined

[Daniele Sluijters (JIRA)]

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Daniele Sluijters created an issue   Puppet / PUP-4930 Provide helpful error message when provider does not have instances defined Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Kylo Ginsberg Components: Types and Providers Created: 2015/07/27 10:09 AM Environment: Any Puppet version ever on any platform Priority: Normal Reporter: Daniele Sluijters When using the RAL to get a list of resources, if the provider does not have the instances method defined you get: Error: Could not run: Provider getsetsebool has not defined the 'instances' class method Regurgitating and implementation detail is incredibly unhelpful except for those few that actually know how types and providers work. I'd like to suggest we add a default instances method on providers that gives us a more helpful error message which every provider must then override (which they'll do anyway if they want to provide this feature, if not they get a user friendly error message for free). Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.5#64020-sha1:78acd6c) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.