Jira (PUP-8078) Make it possible to create parameterized Object data types

[Thomas Hallgren (JIRA)]

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Thomas Hallgren created an issue   Puppet / PUP-8078 Make it possible to create parameterized Object data types Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/10/20 2:00 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Thomas Hallgren It is currently not possible to create an `Object` data type that is parameterized. The type itself can thus only be used to filter instances based on their type, not on contents. This is highly desirable in some cases. A first implementation should allow parameterized types to be created with filtering logic implemented in Ruby. Later, we might add predefined filters such as using Pattern, String, or Enum to match string attributes, min/max filters for magnitudes, or Boolean filters to match if attributes have a value or not. The parameters for an Object type can be added using a new top level property named parameters. The value of this property is a hash similar to attributes where a parameter declaration is a subset of an attribute declaration. The parameter can have a type and a value but is different from an attribute in that a parameter is always optional (a required parameter would break the current pattern where a fully generalized type exists for each parameterized type). A parameterized `Object` type, when serialized, must retain the values of its parameters. Example: type Error[ parameters => { kind => Variant[String, Regexp, Type[Enum], Type[Pattern]], issue_code => Variant[String, Regexp, Type[Enum], Type[Pattern]] }, attributes => { message => String[1], kind => { type => Optional[String[1]], value => undef }, issue_code => { type => Optional[String[1]], value => 'ERROR' }, partial_result => { type => Data, value => undef }, details => { type => Optional[Hash[String[1],Data]], value => undef }, }] The above declaration makes it possible to create a parameterized Error by either providing no parameters at all, one Hash parameter with named arguments, or one or two anonymous (positional) arguments. 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.