Jira (PUP-4178) defined() function returns true for undef and empty string, and false for "main"

[Eric Thompson (JIRA)]

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Eric Thompson commented on PUP-4178   Re: defined() function returns true for undef and empty string, and false for "main" validated on rhel7 at SHA: e5bce51 [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e "notice defined('')" Notice: Scope(Class[main]): false Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.39 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e "notice defined(undef)" Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, function 'defined' called with mis-matched arguments expected: defined(Variant[String, Type[CatalogEntry], Type[Type[CatalogEntry]]] vals{1,}) - arg count {1,} actual: defined(Undef) - arg count {1} at line 1:8 on node lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e "notice defined('main')" Notice: Scope(Class[main]): true Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.40 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined("not_included")' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): true Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.38 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined(Class[not_included])' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): false Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.39 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined(Type[Class[not_included]])' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): true Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.39 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined(Type[Class[not_existing]])' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): false Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.37 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined(Class[not_existing])' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): false Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.38 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds [root@lwfnn6bjeklzkfk puppet]# puppet apply -e 'class not_included{ } notice defined("not_existing")' Notice: Scope(Class[main]): false Notice: Compiled catalog for lwfnn6bjeklzkfk.delivery.puppetlabs.net in environment production in 0.37 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- 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.