Jira (PUP-3656) Prefetch eats most exceptions (those derived from StandardError), there is no way to fail out.

[Gareth Rushgrove (JIRA)]

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Gareth Rushgrove commented on PUP-3656   Re: Prefetch eats most exceptions (those derived from StandardError), there is no way to fail out. Just talking with Ethan Brown who pointed out a workaround for this exists today (hence the change of title). If you create your own exception inheriting from Exception and throw that you can block the whole run. class MyError < Exception and then in prefetch somewhere raise MyError This results in a run that stops: $ puppet apply tests/sg.pp Notice: Compiled catalog for pro.local in environment production in 0.07 seconds Error: Could not run: MyError Simply raising StandardError, say with: raise StandardError.new Throws the error but is eaten (as described in the issue report) Error: Could not prefetch ec2_securitygroup provider 'v2': StandardError Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Ec2_securitygroup[web2-sg]/ensure: created Notice: Finished catalog run in 4.07 seconds Tested with 3.7.4 Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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.