Hi, On Sunday, April 29, 2012 3:25:48 PM UTC+1, Peter wrote: > > Hi KW, > > On Apr 29, 4:30 am, Krzysztof Wilczynski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I was hoping that I could just simply do a: > > > validate_in($::{ensure}, $::{valid_ensure_values}) > > > > How would that be different than using the "in" in your if statement? :) > > Or, what is wrong with using if? Unless I am missing something? :) > > > > KW > > Nothing is wrong with using if statements per-say. > > To put my problem slightly differently, in the module I am working on > I have have five checks that would benefit by having the helper > function (it would be cleaner, easier to maintain and easier to read). > > Also I hope that by doing the check purely in ruby it would be > slightly faster to process rather then return a couple of times. > > To give you an example within my module in the param's file I have: > > $valid_package_ensure_values = [ "present", "installed", > "latest", "absent", "purged", "held" ] > $valid_service_ensure_values = [ "running", "true", > "stopped", "false" ] > $valid_service_enable_values = [ "true", "false", "manual" ] > $valid_module_config_values = [ "file", "template" ] > $valid_module_tpml_loc_values = [ "module", "site" ] > > If I had the validate_in helper function and used the other validate > functions in the stdlib the validation code would look like > (extracted): > > ------------------------------------------ > class module::server::base ( $package_ensure = undef, > $service_ensure = undef, > $service_enable = undef, > $module_config = undef, > $template_loc = undef, > $use_storeconfig = undef, > $proxy_port = undef, > $cache_dir = undef, > $log_dir = undef, > $cache_net_adr = undef > ) { > > include module::params > > validate_in(${package_ensure}, ${valid_package_ensure_values}) > validate_in(${service_ensure}, ${valid_service_ensure_values}) > validate_in(${service_enable}, ${valid_service_enable_values}) > validate_in(${module_config}, ${valid_module_config_values}) > validate_in(${template_loc}, ${valid_module_tpml_loc_values}) > > is_integer($proxy_port) > > validate_absolute_path($cache_dir, $log_dir) > > validate_bool($use_storeconfig) > > # start using the values in code below > ------------------------------------------ > > The above code is very easy to read and you could see at a glance > exactly what is happening. Also if the error message follows the > format described in my previous message debugging would be very > simple. I could see myself using the same pattern in other modules I > develop. > > Bottom line instead of the current 35 lines of validation code I > have, I could replace it with the above 8 lines which would do the > same amount of work (4:1 ratio)! > > Funnily enough after I sent the original email I stumbled on > puppetlabs-stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/member.rb which is > almost exactly what I am looking for, I notice that you wrote it ;) > > Thoughts? >
If you have a moment, then write to me directly :) We can work-out what is needed and I will happily create any function for you :) KW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Q9mf6835WtIJ. 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.
