On Monday, April 8, 2013 8:06:23 AM UTC+3, Luke Kanies wrote:
>
> On Apr 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, tio teath <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> I would like to use Puppet::Type::File as a base type, and add some custom
> properties to it without modifying original code, i.e. using separate
> module under puppet Puppet[:libdir]. What is best approach to achieve this?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This might be possible, but probably will be more annoying than you want.
> If that's not enough warning, though...
>
> You can *probably* create a new type and set ':parent => :file' in that
> type. There used to be an option to retain most/all of the attributes (I
> used this for 'tidy' before I refactored it a long time ago), but I can't
> seem to find it now. That makes me even less confident that this will work
> well.
>
I found this method inside of 'tidy':
def mkfile(path)
# Force deletion, so directories actually get deleted.
Puppet::Type.type(:file).new :path => path, :backup => self[:backup],
:ensure => :absent, :force => true
end
This would not save me from the implementing of all of the wanted
parameters, but it'll be much easier now, thanks.
> Can you elaborate on what you're trying to do, and why?
>
I need agent side template rendering functionality.
That's because of the template data, which available only on agent and
could not be exposed to the master via facts due to security reason. Yeah,
I know that's kind a sucks, but I got this infrastructure as it was, and
it's not up to me to change it.
For the moment, I did implement this as a custom type, but with no useful
file's parameters like "owner", "mode", etc. So I have double resource
definition in the class:
$some_file_resource = 'path_to_file.xml'
file { $some_file_resource:
owner => someowner,
group => somegroup,
mode => 660,
require => My_custom_type[$some_file_resource],
}
my_custom_type { $some_file_resource:
template =>
'puppet:///modules/some_file_resource.xml.erb',
}
And this is ugly. Having a single section would be much more elegant.
>
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