Hmm...thanks for the update. I'll have to try that and see if it works in
this case. Other variations that I tried did not for one reason or another.

Trevor


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Eric Badger <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is decidedly tangential to this thread's topic, but just briefly,
> here is what I mean (a "class instance" variable, or whatever you call it):
>
> Puppet::Type.type(:blah).provide(:bloo) do
>   @class_var = 'stuff'
>   class << self
>     attr_accessor :class_var
>   end
>
>   def some_instance_method
>     self.class.class_var = 'newstuff'
>   end
> ...
>
>
>
> Eric
>
>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:24:02 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Puppet-dev] finalize/cleanup for a provider
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> From what I tried, instance variables stick with the single instance of
> the provider, they don't carry across all providers of the same type.
> Since, I'm trying to share across the various instances of a provider, I
> have to use a class variable. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to
> do it without polluting the global namespace.
>
> The native 'mount' provider does the same thing so I didn't dig much
> deeper to figure out how to work around it.
> If someone does, I'd love to hear how.
>
> Trevor
>
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