Issue #2822 has been updated by James Turnbull.

Category set to error reporting
Status changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
Assigned to set to Markus Roberts
Target version set to 0.25.2


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Bug #2822: Unhelpful error message when an undefined variable is used in a 
resource title
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2822

Author: Alan Barrett
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: Markus Roberts
Category: error reporting
Target version: 0.25.2
Affected version: 0.25.1
Keywords: 
Branch: 


When a resource is defined using an undefined variable, the error message is 
unhelpful.

For example:

<pre>
class myclass {
   $var = "/wherever/somefile"
   file { $wrong_var:
       ensure => file,
   }
}
</pre>

gives an error message like

<pre>
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern from pson: 
Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship target ''
</pre>

After applying the patch from issue #2770, the error messsage is slightly 
improved:

<pre>
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern from pson: 
Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship target "File[]"
</pre>

but there's still no indication of which line in which class in which manifest 
caused the problem.


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