Issue #7529 has been updated by Dominic Cleal.
Nigel Kersten wrote: > I *just* had to deal with this exact issue, and so I feel the pain here at a > very personal level :) It's frustrating, and I think there might be a bug (possibly in the provider) that means they only work one particular way around... something else to investigate one day. > I don't really remember ever having to deal with this problem at such a > frustrating level outside of the Augeas type though, which makes me wonder if > there's an alternative solution. The only other one that seems similar would be for the Exec type, particularly before the advent of the shell provider in 2.6 where a user might use "sh -c". I can't see any solution at the moment for the Augeas provider while we're having to quote XPath-type expressions and embed quotes inside it (which is a limitation of the Augeas lens or impl). ---------------------------------------- Feature #7529: Support alternative quotes for string literals https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7529 Author: Dominic Cleal Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: language Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: language quoting Branch: Quoting can be an issue with Augeas resources, where strings in commands are quoted but the value itself has to contain quotes. For example, to set the value of a node to "bar" (with the quotes), one might do: augeas { "myaug": changes => "set Foo[. = '\"$bar\"'] '\"$bar\"'" } If the DSL supported some alternative method of quoting, such as [Perl's q{} and/or qq{}](http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators) or [Ruby's %q and %Q](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Alternate_quotes), we could lose a level of escaping. Perhaps the above example could then be improved to read: augeas { "myaug": changes => %Q(set Foo[. = '"$bar"'] '"$bar"') } -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
