On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Frederik Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> currently I'm writing a custom provider to configure mailing lists.
>
> In the provider I'm writing I need to access the list of all
> properties (set or unset) defined in the type via 'newproperty'. I'm
> wondering if there's a way to do that. It feels strange if there
> wouldn't.
>
> What I need to do:
> Since upon initial creation of a mailing list not all properties can
> be set, I need to put all defined properties into the @property_hash
> to have them finally set by the flush method. Therefore I need code
> like:
>
> def exists?
>   ... create mailing list...
>
>   all_properties_from_type.each { |prop|
>     @property_hash[prop] = @resource[prop] unless @resource[prop].nil?
>   }
> end
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Bye
>

I don't know what your type is called (replace mailing_list with your type
name):

Puppet::Type.type(:mailing_list).properties.each { ... }

FYI, puppet-dev is probably the better mailing list for these questions
since the puppet core dev monitor that and would know if the internal API
have been updated recently.

Thanks,

Nan

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