This would be a nice elegant solution, however we have not turned the future
parser on quite yet. I will certainly keep this function in mind though in the
future.
> On Jun 3, 2015, at 5:56 AM, Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 2015-03-06 6:26, Jacob McCoy Wade wrote:
>> I am trying to find out how I can validate more than one type of data
>> structure for a given value in a manifest? In particular I would like
>> to be able to have either a string or a hash be a valid data structure.
>> Something like:
>> if ($myvar != false) {
>> validate_string($myvar) || validate_hash($myvar)
>> }
>> Does anybody know if this is possible to do?
>>
> If you are using version >= 4.0.0 or >= 3.6 with future parser you can use
> the type system to do this.
>
> It looks like you want the value to be false (a boolean), a string (including
> an empty string), or a hash (including an empty hash, you do not care what
> the keys and values are).
>
> if $myvar =~ Variant[Boolean, String, Hash] {
> # it is one of those
> }
>
> Note that the above does not accept undef values (which is what I think the
> intention was).
>
> You can also use the function assert_type if you want a simple assertion (or
> an error) rather than just having conditional logic.
>
> assert_type(Variant[Boolean, String, Hash], $myvar)
>
> Hope that helps.
> - henrik
>
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