Jira (PUP-2458) Tests for providers inheriting from providers of another type

[Dominic Cleal (JIRA)]

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Dominic Cleal created an issue   Puppet / PUP-2458 Tests for providers inheriting from providers of another type Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Dominic Cleal Components: Types and Providers Created: 05/May/14 7:44 AM Priority: Minor Reporter: Dominic Cleal It's sometimes desirable to create new providers that inherit from providers of a different type. The inifile module does this currently to create more specialised types: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-inifile#implementing-child-providers Puppet::Type.type(:glance_api_config).provide( :ini_setting, # set ini_setting as the parent provider :parent => Puppet::Type.type(:ini_setting).provider(:ruby) ) do The "ini_setting" type has a standard "ruby" provider, but here a new "glance_api_config" type has been created which has an "ini_setting" provider itself derived from the standard "ruby" provider from ini_setting (the type). We want to use a similar technique in augeasproviders to have a standard provider containing utility implementations, then let others derive from it to create specialised providers. This also neatly sidesteps many issues with loading library code from Puppet providers. This works today, but I'd like to add tests in core to prove it works and to ensure this functionality remains. Add Comment   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.