The resource title and namevar must be unique for any resource as
documented here...

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_resources.html#uniqueness

Defined resource types follow the same rules and the $name variable is
always assumed to be a namevar.

Craig




On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:14 PM, David Portabella <
[email protected]> wrote:

> as explained here:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html#title-and-name
> resource *title* is guaranteed to be unique for each instance.
>
> I thought that resource *name* was not required to be unique.
> however this code suggests the opposite:
>
> my_resource { r1:
>   name => 'r'
> }
>
> my_resource { r2:
>   name => 'r'
> }
>
> define my_resource {
> }
>
> $ puppet apply test.pp
> Error: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError:
> Cannot alias My_resource[r2] to ["r"] at /private/tmp/a.pp:7; resource
> ["My_resource", "r"] already declared at /private/tmp/a.pp:3 at
> /private/tmp/a.pp:7 on node mac4c.local
>
>
> so, is resource *name* also unique for each instance?
>
> where is it explained?
> I do not see this info on the documentation:
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html#title-and-name
>
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