Issue #20758 has been updated by Rob Nelson. Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs Decision
In spite of how awesome this feature may be, it still needs a decision from the product owner. ---------------------------------------- Feature #20758: Accessing arguments in exported resource collection override for override. https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20758#change-98390 * Author: James Shubin * Status: Needs Decision * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: awesome,feature,idea * Branch: ---------------------------------------- Sorry I don't know how to name the subject any better... I came up with something which would be particularly useful for advanced puppet users, which I don't think exists at the moment. If it does, please let me know, if not, then consider this a feature request! Given: <pre> @@foo::bar { 'some_name': value => 'hello', thing => 'world', tag => 'mytag', } </pre> and (on a different machine): I'd like to be able to access the properties of the element being created, for use in it's override block... Here is a very contrived example, I've made up a fake syntax of round brackets: $(thing) to show where i am using a variable from the object. This could be sort of like regexp conditional _capture_ variables, but named... <pre> Foo::Bar <<| tag == 'mytag' |>> { value => "override", thing => $(value) ? { # $(value) should be one of the arguments 'world' => 'Earth', 'baz' => "$(name)", # here we're using the name this define has... 'yeah' => "$(tag)", # or maybe we want a property like tag default => "$(thing)-whatever", # here's another example, but this time with $thing }, } </pre> Please note that the syntax of $(foo) that I made up is probably the wrong thing... It can't be ${foo} because of course you always want to be able to still access the main scope variables named as such, so perhaps something special is needed. Maybe $:var (single colon?) or $::special_namespace_identifier::foo, such as $::__override::foo, or Foo::Bar::Variable ? Cheers, James -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
