Jira (PUP-2568) Cannot use class references with upper cased strings

[Kurt Wall (JIRA)]

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Kurt Wall commented on an issue   Re: Cannot use class references with upper cased strings Verified at SHA=f3cf93a72fa04cfca39d55d129b5665990a52e7e: # x.pp include 'apache' notice Class[Apache::Foo] notice Class['Apache::Foo'] $a = 'Apache::Foo' notice Class[$a] # bundle exec puppet apply x.pp Warning: Config file /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml not found, using Hiera defaults Notice: Scope(Class[main]): Class[Apache::Foo] Notice: Scope(Class[main]): Class[Apache::Foo] Notice: Scope(Class[main]): Class[Apache::Foo] Notice: Compiled catalog for centos6-5-base.localdomain in environment production in 1.46 seconds Warning: The package type's allow_virtual parameter will be changing its default value from false to true in a future release. If you do not want to allow virtual packages, please explicitly set allow_virtual to false. (at /root/puppet/lib/puppet/type.rb:816:in `set_default') Notice: Finished catalog run in 1.20 seconds Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2568 Cannot use class references with upper cased strings The future parser accepts {{Class[Apache::Foo]}} as a reference but will reject {{Class['Apache::Foo']}} and {{$a = 'Apache::Foo'; Class[$a]}} (a string or an _expression_ that results in a string. All of these variations should continue to work. 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.