Jira (PUP-7916) An Object Data Type with an unresolved parent causes an undefined method error

[Thomas Hallgren (JIRA)]

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Thomas Hallgren created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7916 An Object Data Type with an unresolved parent causes an undefined method error Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Thomas Hallgren Created: 2017/09/06 4:25 AM Priority: Minor Reporter: Thomas Hallgren If an Object type is created with an unresolved parent type, this causes an unnamed anonymous class to be created which in turn results in the error an undefined error. This error should normally never happen since the fact that the parent type is unresolved will be trapped by the evaluator. In order to this to happen, the unresolved parent must first be cloaked by having a string resolved into a TypeReference. Example: $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'notice(Object[{name => "Bar", parent => Type("Foo")}].new)' Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Method call, undefined method `sub' for nil:NilClass at line 1:54 on node localhost This however (which would be the common case) correctly reports the unresolved parent: $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'notice(Object[{name => "Bar", parent => Foo}].new)' Error: Evaluation Error: Resource type not found: Foo at line 1:41 on node localhost 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.