As far as I know, the only reason you would use params.pp is if you have
sane defaults you want to pass to variables. When you do, you use:
class test inherits test::params {
}
for your init.pp. You don't use an include statement as far as I know.
However, because you aren't defining sane defaults, you don't need the
params.pp.
Instead just make your test/manifests/init.pp look like:
class test {
$p1 = hiera('param1')
$p2 = hiera('param2')
file { 'testfile' :
path => "/tmp/testfile",
content => template("test/testfile.erb"),
}
}
Hope that helps.
--Alex
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:31:03 AM UTC-7, drs wrote:
>
> I am new to puppet and am trying to figure out variable scoping. I have a
> test module that I am using for this and it looks like this:
>
> manifiests/init.pp:
>
> class test {
> include test::params
>
> file { 'testfile' :
> path => "/tmp/testfile",
> content => template("test/testfile.erb"),
> }
> }
>
> manifests/params.pp:
>
> class test::params {
> $p1 = hiera('param1')
> $p2 = hiera('param2')
> }
>
> templates/testfile.erb:
>
> this is the first parameter: <%= @p1 %>
> this is the second parameter: <%= @p2 %>
>
> global.yaml:
>
> ---
> param1: "this is the first one"
> param2: "this is the second one"
>
> Based on what I am seeing in the ProPuppet book (the discussion of the
> puppet module in Chap. 2, pp69-70), this should work. However, the values
> are not being inserted in the template. In order to get them in, I have to
> add something like this to the init.pp manifest:
>
> $a = $::test::params::p1
> $b = $::test::params::p2
>
> and reference @a and @b in the template.
>
> So the question is: Am I missing something or is there an error in the
> ProPuppet example?
>
> If I need to add the $a = …. and $b=… lines to the init.pp, what, if any
> is the advantage to having a params.pp manifest. I could just put the
> hiera() calls in init.pp.
>
> thanks for your patience.
>
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