On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jeff McCune <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've implemented local caching for my computational expensive and >> infrequently varying facts, and I've been thinking about whether it >> would make sense for Facter to implement something similar. > > Very cool. > >> I'm thinking about an easy mechanism a la :confine for declaring that >> a given fact should be cached and has an expiry value (perhaps with >> some simple options like cache-once-per-reboot). > > +1, maybe file as a feature request? > > I anticipate a large number of facts interacting with web service > API's in the future, and this would be really useful for that class of > use case.
There are a bunch of surrounding questions about Puppet interaction with Facter, as I can imagine you may wish to have the --test option for Puppet automatically ignore the cache for Facter, but we may as well kick it off now. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4554 > > -- > Jeff McCune > http://www.puppetlabs.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
