Jira (PUP-6525) Add Ranges to DSL

[Kyle Chickering (JIRA)]

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Kyle Chickering created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6525 Add Ranges to DSL Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: PUP 4.5.2 Assignee: Unassigned Components: DSL Created: 2016/07/19 7:03 PM Environment: All Priority: Minor Reporter: Kyle Chickering Add ranges to the puppet DSL Currently for a resource that may take a number as a namevar, declaring multiple resources looks something like this: resource { ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5']: ensure => present, } This is easy for small numbers of resources, but when declaring 100s or 1000s of these types of resources its get very tiresome to type (or script) the values needed and paste them in. What I am suggesting is a range operator to populate an array with the values of a range. Something like this: $a = range(1, 5) resource { $a: ensure => present, } This may not be a big deal for small use-cases, but we have a situation where we are declaring upwards of a 100 resources and the following manifest would be much easier to maintain: $a = range(143, 567) resource { $a: ensure => present, } I have a work-around for my implementation which parses the namevar as if its a range and handles the management of multiple resources in the provider, however this method is very hacky and prevents me from using self.instances and self.prefetch as they operate under the assumption that only a single resource is used. My implementation looks like this: resource { '143-567': ensure => present, } An alternative solution to the same problem is to support more looping than just iterations. For example if I have two part namevars (which I also have), for example a location and an ip make up the name var, I could generate an array that way. For example, instead of this: $vars = ['name 10.10.10.1', 'name 10.10.10.2', 'name2 10.10.10.1', 'name2 10.10.10.2'] resource { $vars: ensure => present, } We generate an array: (This is Ruby, not DSL, I don't know how this would look in DSL) vars = [] range(1, 2).each do |i| vars.append("name 10.10.10.#{i}") vars.append("name2 10.10.10.#{i}") end Which can easily scale to: vars = [] range(0, 255).each do |i| vars.append("name 10.10.10.#{i}") vars.append("name2 10.10.10.#{i}") vars.append("name3 10.10.10.#{i}") vars.append("name4 10.10.10.#{i}") end To manage a huge amount of resources. My current implementation looks like this: (Also handles multiple resources through a single provider) resource { 'name1 10.10.10.0-255': ensure => present, } ... resource { 'name4 10.10.10.0-255': ensure => present, } I think that ranges and more advanced looping would be a great addition to the Puppet DSL, especially in fields like networking where we deal with managing large volumes of IP related resources. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.13#64028-sha1:b7939e9) -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.