Yeah, using the path:username is fine but a big fugly.
What I'd like is this:
foo { "meaningless_name":
target => "/some/path",
username => "username"
}
Then, in foo.rb, I'd like to be able to say:
:namevar = "#{target}:#{username}
This would effectively throw away 'meaningless_name' and allow me to
have proper uniqueness across files.
So, you could have:
/some/path + foo
/some/path + bar
/some/other/path + foo
But not another '/some/path + foo'
The workaround is easy enough but it makes for some darn unreadable manifest-fu.
Thanks,
Trevor
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Markus Roberts <mar...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Trevor --
>
> It should be. The way to do it would be to set up a naming scheme that let
> the key fields be inferred from the title (e.g. something like "username in
> path" or the "path:username" that you gave as an example) with a regular
> expression to parse them (e.g. /^([a-zA-Z_0-9+) in (.+)$/ or
> /^(.*):([a-zA-Z_0-9]+)$/) and then you'd have the option of specifying the
> title as the "canonical" composite name var or of having the title be an
> arbitrary non-matching string and getting the key fields from the body).
>
> While this technically answers your question, I suspect it probably raises
> ~3 more; at least, that's what always happened to me when we were first
> exploring this space, and Dan followed a similar trajectory as I recall.
> Feel free to ask them as they occur to you.
>
> -- Markus
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles,
> scream and shout. -- 1920's parody of the
> maritime general prudential rule
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Puppet Developers" group.
> To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
>
--
Trevor Vaughan
Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc
(410) 541-6699
tvaug...@onyxpoint.com
-- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information --
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Puppet Developers" group.
To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
