Jira (PUP-4489) Add data_provider to module metadata

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Eric Thompson created an issue   Puppet / PUP-4489 Add data_provider to module metadata Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2015/04/29 7:09 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Eric Thompson Environments In environments one can use the default environment_data_provider of 'function' to provide data and it looks to the environment's function data() to provide the data. environment_data_provider can be set in an environment.conf. perhaps one could also specify the name of the function(s) in the environment.conf Modules setup data binding for a module: # <moduleroot>/lib/puppet/bindings/mymodule/default.rb # Puppet::Bindings.newbindings('mymodule::default') do bind { name 'mymodule' # name of the module this is placed in to 'function' # name of the data provider in_multibind 'puppet::module_data' # boiler-plate } end none of this does anything for the user other than specify that this module provides data implicitly from its data() function. One thing we talked about that would help would be to provide a way to specify the name of a different function. Better would be a method similar to environments where you could configure a data provider for a module and puppet would do the work. We don't really have a module.conf, otherwise i'd say maybe we could specify the binding type and function name(s) in there. Metadata.json might be a possibility, but i'm not sure how this would interact with the forge. 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.