On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> so my "shared" method in the provider returns a TrueClass.
>
> my "shared=(value)" method is getting a Symbol.
>
> I can work around this, but it isn't what I expected to happen.
Yeah, this is the ridiculous part -- you shouldn't need to use a
symbol here, but you do at this point, I think.
>> 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.
>
> This works nicely actually, apart from not getting automatic value
> validation the same way newvalue(:true) newvalue(:false) does. That
> should probably be automatic shouldn't it?
Heh, sorry -- you still need to add the newvalue calls there, and
you're right that you shouldn't need to.
>
> If I leave the newvalues out, and have a manifest like:
>
> macauthorization {"system.device.dvd.setregion.initial":
> ensure => present,
> shared => false,
> }
>
> I get this:
>
> err: //Macauthorization[system.device.dvd.setregion.initial]/shared:
> change from true to false failed: Got a nil value for should
>
> hmm. I'll clean up the code a bit and stick it up somewhere to make
> this conversation a bit more productive.
Ok.
--
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