Assuming that the "file" and the "new_type" resource will always be
together I would wrap them in a defined type and expose everything you need
as parameters. That way both can have access to it without any hacky stuff.
I'm not sure of your level of Puppet knowledge so if that makes no sense
let me know and I will explain.
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 02:16:11 UTC+10, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> There's probably a way to do that, but I don't think it's a good idea.
>
> In order to look at the 'path' attribute of the 'file' resource, you'd
> need to specify which 'file' resource your new_type relates to. That means
> new_type would have a property with the value File['interface'], which
> isn't much different than having the 'path' property. Unless your type is
> specifically operating on the File resource abstraction, rather than the
> physical file itself, using 'path' seems to make more sense.
>
> Overloading the notify/require relationship to make that association would
> be a bad idea - they're 1-to-many and many-to-1 relationships - and
> probably complicated to make work.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:38 AM, ganesh634 <gane...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Pasted below an example relation for new resource say 'new_type'.
>>
>>
>>
>> file
>>
>> { "interface":
>>
>> path => "/var/tmp/test.txt",
>>
>> content => template("module/test_template.erb"),
>>
>> notify => new_type['sample'],
>>
>> }
>>
>> new_type
>>
>> { "sample":
>>
>> path => "/var/tmp/test.txt",
>>
>> active =>true,
>>
>> ensure=>present,
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> In 'new_type' resource implementation I want to access value of 'path'
>> attribute value from 'file' resource to determine certain action in
>> 'new_type' resource.
>>
>> With current approach I have to keep ‘path’ attribute in ‘new_type’ and
>> mandate user to have ‘path’ value same as that of ‘path’ value in file
>> resource.
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I access 'file’ resource 'path' attribute value in 'new_type'
>> resource implementation?
>> If it is possible I can remove the 'path' attribute from 'new_type'
>> resource body as value of both path need to be same all the time.
>>
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