OK, some success. I get some unformatted output, PSON I think. I'm pretty sure it just takes the node definition as input (cached if available) and merely compiles my classes. I don't think facts get involved, because that's part of the instantiation phase (see http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Internals).
That will be sufficient for unit tests that catch compile-time manifest errors. I'll have to work a little harder to get more usable output (Yaml?), or to write any tests that use facts (real, cached or faked). On Aug 3, 9:20 pm, Jon Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Patrick, I'll give that a try. > > I'm not too worried about breaking existing configuration, or cached > facts. Everything will be running in a sandbox, which will be clean > prior to every test run. > > On Aug 3, 12:22 pm, Patrick Mohr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Jon Wilson wrote: > > > > Hiya, > > > > Is there a way I can easily generate the catalog for a particular > > > puppet client, without actually running Puppet on that client? > > > > I'd like to write some unit tests for my Puppet master, which generate > > > catalogs for a set of clients, and check their content. This will > > > syntax & sanity check my manifests, without getting stuck in > > > certificate hell. > > > Here's a command to get you started: > > puppetmasterd --compile clients.fqdn > > > I'm not sure how, but some magic is being done to get the client's facts. > > I'm assuming the facts are cached from an earlier run, but this is pure > > speculation. > > > If you run it with --verbose, it will send that information to stderr. > > > To make the tests much shorter on failure, you probably want to test the > > erb using "erb -x -P -T '-' $1 | ruby -c " and test the config using > > --parseonly. > > > Warning: when the catalog is compiled, everything* that would normally be > > done with storeconfigs will be done. This means running tests like this > > can affect your existing configuration. > > > *I'm not actually sure it does everything, but it does most of the > > storeconfigs stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
