Jira (PUP-6751) Deprecate multi-block defaults (and multi-block resources)

[Hunter Haugen (JIRA)]

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Hunter Haugen created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6751 Deprecate multi-block defaults (and multi-block resources) Issue Type: Task Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2016/09/28 5:37 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Hunter Haugen Puppet's language has long supported multi-block resources: file { '/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key': mode => '0600', owner => 'root', group => 'root', ensure => file, ; '/etc/ssh_host_key': mode => '0600', owner => 'root', group => 'root', ensure => file, ; '/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub': mode => '0644', owner => 'root', group => 'root', ensure => file, ; '/etc/ssh_host_key.pub': mode => '0644', owner => 'root', group => 'root', ensure => file, ; } And they have been loathed discouraged by the modules team for almost as long and deprecated in the style guide: https://docs.puppet.com/guides/style_guide.html#resource-arrangement At some point, a feature was added to puppet that actually uses block resource declarations: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.2/reference/lang_data_default.html#per-block-resource-defaults This is only available in a design pattern that has long been discouraged, so we should just go ahead and deprecate the feature and block-resources on the whole. If anything, the * pattern can be used, but I couldn't find a clean way of doing it: https://gist.github.com/hunner/ea11d5a51ec0651bed5a0f0823225ce1 I wonder how many users have copy/pasted this: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-tomcat/blob/c8c66135f7140b91a2bb4e59672a067678cfa782/README.md#beginning-with-tomcat Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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.