Jira (PUP-1410) Empty resource collectors can break long relationship chains

[Nick Lewis (JIRA)]

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Nick Lewis commented on an issue   Re: Empty resource collectors can break long relationship chains This syntax doesn't seem to actually create transitive dependencies, even if the middle bit does exist. It's effectively interpreted as: Exec[pre] -> Exec<| tag == 'inter' |> Exec<| tag == 'inter' |> -> Exec[post] In that case, it makes some sense that there wouldn't be a relationship between Exec[pre] and Exec[post]. However, as we've already fixed a similar issue regarding empty classes, this behavior is surprising at best. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1410 Empty resource collectors can break long relationship chains Hi, When using chained resources, with a collection within the string, if the collection is empty, the chain is broken and the resources either side do not depend on each other. Example: test/manifests/init.pp     class test {       $cr = ["1", "2"]          exec{"pre":         command => "/bin/true"       }          exec{"post":      ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.