Issue #8040 has been updated by Jeff McCune.
Chris Price wrote:
> Jeff--starting to look at this and would love to pick your brain about it for
> a few minutes sometime soon. My most pressing question at the moment is this:
Sure, come on over to my desk anytime. Even if I have my headphones on.
> Your updated graph shows a relationship between "Anchor[java::*]" and
> "Anchor[activemq::begin]". I'm confused as to how this relationship gets
> established. It seems like it would have to be specified explicitly
> somewhere... is that correct? And, if so, where does that happen? User's
> manifest? Or in the ActiveMQ module?
Here's how that happens:
<pre>
node foo {
include activemq
}
class mcollective {
class { java: } -> class { activemq: }
}
</pre>
So, in the line `class { java: } -> class { activemq: }` all of the resources
in the Java class will have a relationship to all of the resources in the
activemq class.
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Bug #8040: Classes should be able to contain other classes to provide a self
contained module
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8040#change-61859
Author: Jeff McCune
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Daniel Pittman
Category: compiler
Target version:
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.0
Keywords: anchor containment contain graph modules module self-contained
dependency reuse usability forge
Branch:
# Overview #
As a module author, I want to build collections of classes for end users
shipped as a module.
As a module end-user, I want to manage resources before and that require the
collection of classes as a self contained unit of functionality.
For example, the end user wants to use a module I write in the following way:
<pre>
node default {
class { 'java': }
->
class { 'activemq': }
->
class { 'mcollective: }
}
</pre>
Where java, activemq, and mcollective are all discrete modules with multiple
classes each. For example, a each module has a class for the packages, a class
for the configuration files, and a class for the running service if there is a
service.
With Puppet 2.6, when a class declares another class, the classes are not
related to each other in any way, containment or dependency.
# Expected Behavior #
The example illustrates the expectation that all resources in the activemq
module are managed after all resources in the java module and before all
resources in the mcollective module.
# Actual Behavior #
Without the Anchor Pattern, when class activemq::service is declared from
within class activemq, the resources float away and are not transitively
related to java or mcollective.
# Suggested Implementation #
It has been expressed that it may be a viable solution for module authors to be
able to specify containment edges in the graph from within the Puppet DSL.
With Puppet 2.6.x and 2.7.x this is not possible. The Anchor Pattern works
around this problem by specifying relationship edges to a resource contained
within the composite class.
# Work Around #
The Anchor Pattern is the current work around for Puppet 2.6.x When a class
declares other classes, it should contain them using this pattern:
<pre>
class activemq {
anchor { 'activemq::begin': }
anchor { 'activemq::end': }
class { 'activemq::package':
require => Anchor['activemq::begin'],
}
class { 'activemq::config':
require => Class['activemq::config'],
notify => Class['activemq::service'],
}
class { 'activemq::service':
before => Anchor['activemq::end'],
}
}
</pre>
--
Jeff McCune
Puppet Labs
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