Jira (PUP-1960) realizing an empty array of resources fails in future evaluator

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: realizing an empty array of resources fails in future evaluator File[['/tmp/foo', '/tmp/bar']] returns [File['/tmp/fpp Yeah, you are right - it takes a shortcut and just flattens and compacts whatever is given to it as arguments, this because you can write: File[a] File[a, b] File[[a,b]] File[a,[b]] File[[[[a,b]]] ... and they all mean the same thing - this to be backwards compatible. I can imagine changing the rules to: If given one argument and it is not an array => one type, possibly? error if arg is undef or empty string If given more than one arg, or one of the args is an array => array of type, possibly empty Now the rule is: If given one argument after flatten and compact => one type, or empty array if argument reduced to nothing If given more than one argument after flatten and compact => array of types (The same applies to the Class type) Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1960 realizing an empty array of resources fails in future evaluator The following code runs fine without deprecation warning in old evaluator but fails in 3.5-rc1: {code} realize(File[[]]) {code} {noformat} Error: Evaluation Error: File[] accepts 1 argument. Got 0 on node test.dalen.cloud.spotify.net Error: Evaluation Error: File[] accepts 1 argument. Got 0 on node test.dalen.cloud.spotify.net {noformat} 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/d/optout.