Issue #6943 has been updated by Nick Fagerlund.

The answer is, "sort of." Luke doesn't think anyone's touched or used this code 
since he put it in, and is skeptical about it still working at all. I honestly 
don't understand it well enough to test it myself, and have never written a 
custom type or provider, which is the only way to use this. 

So that's why it's been languishing: no one is using it, and we haven't been 
able to determine whether they even should. 
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Feature #6943: Support client-side templates
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6943

Author: James Turnbull
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: 
Target version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: 
Affected URL: 


I've just pushed a commit to my repo in feature/resource_template that provides 
client-side templates.  The templates are evaluated with access to the 
specified resource's attributes.

They're mostly useful for building composite resources, maybe like so:
<pre>
... my resource code ...
  def generate
    Puppet::Type.type(:file).create :path => "/my/file",
      content => Puppet::Util::ResourceTemplate.new("/my/template", 
self).evaluate
  end
...
</pre>
This is a small patch, and will likely rarely be used (and probably never from 
within Puppet's core), but it's already in use at a client and will likely be 
used at other places that need to build composite resources or use an API to 
generate resources rather than using the language for specifying all of them.


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