Jira (PUP-7588) Types should error when provider is missing a feature for an attribute

[Chad Armitstead (JIRA)]

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Chad Armitstead created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7588 Types should error when provider is missing a feature for an attribute Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/05/23 2:54 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Chad Armitstead Based on observations in PUP-7139 , when a user provides values to attributes of a resource where the provider doesn't support the required features, there is a debug message raised and the action is unsuccessful. Because the action fails, this should be something that is visible to a user. As such, I'm proposing that the log level of the below be raised to error: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/6c5b7043896977e51587df815bd8c9dbb071ace3/lib/puppet/type.rb#L771 To replicate this behaviour, use the below (I ran it on a CentOS 6 VM): puppet apply -e 'group { "myspecialgroup": members => ['chad'], ensure => present, provider => groupadd }' --noop --debug This results in the following log: Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec) Notice: Compiled catalog for centos6a.pdx.puppet.vm in environment production in 0.09 seconds Debug: /Group[myspecialgroup]: Provider groupadd does not support features manages_members; not managing attribute members Debug: Creating default schedules Debug: Loaded state in 0.02 seconds Debug: Loaded state in 0.04 seconds Debug: Loaded transaction store file in 0.00 seconds Info: Applying configuration version '1495533119' Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Group[myspecialgroup]/ensure: current_value absent, should be present (noop) Debug: /Group[myspecialgroup]: The container Class[Main] will propagate my refresh event Notice: Class[Main]: Would have triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Debug: Class[Main]: The container Stage[main] will propagate my refresh event Notice: Stage[main]: Would have triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Debug: Finishing transaction 39288460 Debug: Storing state Debug: Stored state in 0.03 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.08 seconds As the target state is never reached, puppet should notify the user that there has been a failure in an error message. 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.