Issue #2281 has been updated by Luke Kanies. Status changed from Needs design decision to Accepted Assigned to deleted (Luke Kanies)
I actually had this ability years ago but removed it since it was claimed that it made it more complicated with little benefit. It should be easy to add back. ---------------------------------------- Refactor #2281: Element wrappers http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2281 Author: James Turnbull Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assigned to: Category: Target version: unplanned Affected version: 0.24.8 Branch: A significant portion of functions look something like this: <pre> define remotefile(source, mode, owner) { file { $name: source => "puppet://puppet/module/$source", mode => $mode, owner => $owner, } } </pre> Notice that it just wraps another type, adding a bit of information. It'd be great to have a simple language construct that supported this smoothly, so we didn't have to respecify every attribute supported by the object type (notice particularly that most attributes are *not* overridden). It seems almost like it should be a subclass of an existing type, using something akin to ruby's "super" function: <pre> define remotefile(source) inherits file { super { source => "puppet://puppet/module/$source" } } </pre> This provides the needed functionality and is relatively straightforward in concept. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
