Issue #5820 has been updated by Jeff McCune. Status changed from Accepted to Duplicate
# Action Required # We have gone back and forth on this a lot. At the very best we're wildly inconsistent in 3.x and all of our values for undef internally evaluate to truth and internally have non-empty to_s implementations. Based on the huge number of undef related tickets in the issue tracker, I'm making a stand and saying #15329 is the real root cause of all of these issue. If you are a watcher on this ticket, please transfer your most pressing concerns to #15329. Here is the list of related "undef" issues that I've found so far: * #4692 * #5820 * #6621 * #6745 * #8778 * #8783 * #13210 * #14654 * #14677 * #14666 I am going to close this ticket as a duplicate of #15329. Again, please transfer your most pressing concerns to #15329 in an effort to consolidate all of the issues related to undef variables in the Puppet DSL. Thanks, -Jeff ---------------------------------------- Bug #5820: Undefined variables throw poor error https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5820#change-66226 Author: James Turnbull Status: Duplicate Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: error reporting Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.6.4 Keywords: Branch: In 0.25.5 and earlier undefined variables were accepted. In 2.6.x and later they throw a poor error: <pre> node default { $my_array = [ $some_var, 'some value', ] file { "/tmp/test": content => inline_template("<%= my_array.reject(&:empty?).each do |val| val end -%>") } } </pre> If $some_var doesn't exist on 2.6.4. then error is thrown: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse inline template: undefined method `empty?' for :undef:Symbol Defining variable $some_var='' makes this work. Error should indicate some_var is missing. -- 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.
