What Michael said about the design is worth considering. If it makes sense to reference another resource instead of a path string (e.g. File["myfile"]) and you're just curious about how to do it, there's code that does similar things in the puppetlabs/transition module, as well as in changes pending to the 2.x version of the puppetlabs/concat module
https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/transition https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-transition/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/transition/ruby.rb and https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/concat https://github.com/hunner/puppetlabs-concat/blob/c34231d130591d60d122fdab8c2fe794a17666ef/lib/puppet/type/concat.rb#L222 If you mean to do this in Puppet code rather than in a type/provider, there are evaluation-order considerations that make it generally inadvisable. However, there is a function for that. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib#getparam It just needs to be very, very carefully used to the point which in almost all cases it would be better to just use a variable instead. ~Reid > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/33462acb-e02a-4328-9030-a300a5ea5d51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
