On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
> I was trying to track down why a manifest that looks like this for
> my type:
>
> macauthorization {"system.device.dvd.setregion.initial":
> ensure => present,
> shared => true,
> }
>
> kept telling me:
>
> notice: //Macauthorization[system.device.dvd.setregion.initial]/
> shared:
> shared changed 'true' to 'true'
>
> and some debugging in the property class showed that the current value
> class is a TrueClass while the new value class is a Symbol.
>
> Should I need to do munging like this in the property definition, or
> is this an indication something else is up with my type? like I'm not
> symbolizing somewhere that I should be?
>
> newproperty(:shared) do
> desc "shared"
> newvalue(:true)
> newvalue(:false)
>
> munge do |value|
> case value
> when true, "true", :true:
> true
> else
> value
> end
> end
> end
>
> The current value will always come out as a boolean from the backing
> store.
I agree there's something ridiculous going on here, but you shouldn't
need to manually munge things.
I'd start by adding debugging to your type to see where you've got the
boolean and where you've got the symbol or whatever.
From the code, only strings are converted to symbols by default, but
I think a limitation in the system caused me to start using symbols
everywhere, and there's some kind of magic that that makes true/false
work.
For this, you might also try adding ':boolean => true' to the property
declaration:
newproperty(:shared, :boolean => true) do ... end
This should actually be autodetected, but it's convenient in that it
gives you a 'resource.shared?' method, which can be useful.
The master branch has all of this newvalue code completely refactored,
and it will be much easier to make it behave more sensibly.
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