Issue #5259 has been updated by Peter Meier.
> Feel free to reject this if it's unrelated, but this came up on the mailing
> list today - it would be great if, whatever the nomenclature ends up being (I
> like "title"), the value is accessible as a local variable inside a resource.
> I.e. this doesn't work, and it really ought to:
this is a bit unrelated to that bug report and as far as I remember there have
been a feature request to enable the usage of such variables in the define
header itself. so
<pre>
define foo( $source => "/nfsshare/${name}.tar.gz"){}
</pre>
And you could wrap up your example easily with a custom define. However, I
agree that it would be nice to refer to the defining resource itself, but there
is a "problem" with your proposal:
> [...]
> Update: fixed paste after testing under 2.6.4 to show that $title (and $name
> incidentally) expands to the string 'main' (which preesumably is the run
> stage?)
yes this is related to the "surrounding" entity. And hence in a plain.pp file
this is the main-stage, in a define it would be the name of the define.
Therefor we can't take $name directly. But well, as I said this is is imho
better suited in another bugreport.
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Bug #5259: Synonyms (title, namevar, name) make it confusing.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5259
Author: Jordan Sissel
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Affected Puppet version:
Keywords: consistency usability
Branch:
* If you're querying a resource, it's Someresource <| title == ... |>
* If you're writing a provider, it's called a 'namevar'
* If you're implementing a custom define, it's called $name.
This is confusing and could benefit from unification, even if it's a small step
such as unifying $name and title.
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