Issue #4748 has been updated by Felix Frank.
The discussion was quite enlightening, so I devised the following workaround:
<pre>
class base {
$variable = ""
file{"/tmp/foo": content => "base"}
}
class foo inherits base {
notify{$base::variable:}
File["/tmp/foo"] { content => $base::variable }
}
class special {
$base::variable += "special"
include foo
}
include base
include special
</pre>
Granted, it includes some syntactical overhead and significantly reduces
manifest readability, but it adequately works around the scoping problem.
Successfully tested with 0.25.5 and 2.6.0.
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Bug #4748: Variable scope confusing when including subclasses
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4748
Author: Felix Frank
Status: Needs design decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Paul Berry
Category: language
Target version:
Affected version: development
Keywords: variables, scope, inheritance
Branch:
When including a class that inherits another, variables used only in the
inheriting class still seem to be scoped to the context of the original include
of the base class.
<pre>
class base {
file{"/tmp/foo": content => "base"}
}
class foo inherits base {
notify{$variable:}
File["/tmp/foo"] { content => $variable }
}
class special {
$variable = "special"
include foo
}
include base
include special
</pre>
With thanks to Volcane for the cleaned up example code.
Reproduced with versions 0.25.5 and 2.6.1rc4.
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