On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:55 AM, S H wrote:
>
> > As I mentioned in another thread, I'm trying to work through the
> > kinks in developing my own types/providers. I appear to be doing
> > something very wrong, but I don't know what.
> >
> > On my puppetmaster, I've got the following:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > # modules/test/plugins/puppet/type/testtype.rb
> > Puppet::Type.newtype(:testtype) do
> > @doc = "A test type"
> > ensurable
> >
> > newparam(:name, :namevar => true) do
> > desc "The name"
> > end
> > end
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > # modules/test/plugins/puppet/provider/testtype.rb
> > Puppet::Type.type(:testtype).provide do
> > desc "Test provider"
> >
> > def create
> > return true
> > end
> > def destroy
> > return true
> > end
> > def exists?
> > return true
> > end
> > end
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > # modules/test/manifests/init.pp
> > testtype { "testinstance":
> > ensure => present,
> > }
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > My test machine downloads the plugins to the right location but
> > throws this error when it makes the catalog run:
> > err: //unix/test/Testtype[testinstance]: Failed to retrieve current
> > state of resource: No ability to determine if testtype exists
> >
> > If I skip the "ensurable" and provider steps and just dump the right
> > code into the newproperty(:ensure) do block, it works fine.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong here?
>
> It looks like your provider isn't valid - you haven't provided (heh) a
> name for it.
>
> My guess is that you're using an older version of Puppet that's not
> correctly showing the error that comes up with that code, so your type
> isn't getting the provider which means it's not seeing those methods.
>
> Try 'ruby -rpuppet </path/to/file>' to make sure your provider works.
>
> --
> Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
> away. -- Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
This actually turned out to two issues. First, I didn't name it. I wasn't
clear that the name was required and had removed it while testing to
eliminate possible variables.
Second, and the one that made it work once the name was in there, was the
path. I had it at modules/test/plugins/puppet/provider/testtype.rb when
there really needed to be a subdirectory under provider named after the
type. So moving the provider under
modules/test/plugins/puppet/provider/testtype/ made things happy.
Is there somewhere in the documentation that the latter part is noted? If
not, I'd be glad to add it to the wiki.
-Shawn
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