We've looked at two different possibilities thus far: 1) Make all resource types hash-aware. This is what I was originally asking for. It would mean changing the way resources are declared so that in the case of a hash their representation of $name was appropriate for use with defines and virtuals. This could either be done by requiring the hash to have a 'name' key and using that or by creating a metaparameter like hash_key so it could be user-specified. The hash itself would need to be passed to the resource in the same way as $name but with a different identifier so that its keys could be accessed inside the resource as e.g. $data[key].
The upside of this is that it should work universally and conceptually match the rest of Puppet, the downsides I see so far are that its implementation might well be intrusive and it might also add to the DSL. 2) Create a hash -> resource transformation function. If I understood John correctly this is what he was in favor of. The upside of this is it should be less intrusive, easier to implement, and require no DSL changes. The downside is that it still makes hashes special and requires separate handling of them. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Randall Hansen <rand...@puppetlabs.com>wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > All I'm saying is that I think hashes should be first-class citizens in > > Puppet and right now they're not. > > I agree with that as a high-level problem statement, but to make > progress we need to put legs on it. John's got one possibility: a > new built-in function. I agree with him that the DSL is too crufty, > but I don't think this needs to add to it if done well. > > Here's another possibility, I think: > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/162d86ed39d6d8da > > What do you think? I must admit not to understand all the details. > As D. UX I mostly try to squeeze ideas out of other people. :) I'll > try to keep the conversation going and help us coalesce around the > details, but I'll need help from people who really have skin in the > game. > > Thanks, > > r > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
