On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Nan Liu <nan....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using puppet-system module and the usage of the schedule metaparameter > is generating a large amount of warnings similar to the one below (about 30 > lines): > > Warning: schedule is a metaparam; this value will inherit to all contained > resources in the system::sysconfig::puppet definition > > I'm actually surprised that is a warning and not a flat out error. The effect that it has is that now a user can't have a list of metaparams in their head when reading code and know when a parameter is *truly* one and and when it isn't.
> In this case, I think the behavior makes sense and I would like to exclude > this from appearing since the noise is masking more useful warnings. I > don't believe there's an option to disable warnings and in this case I > really want to just ignore it for this one module and not globally disable > it everywhere. I haven't found a good solution than monkey patching puppet > type: > > alias_method :orig_warn_if_metaparam, :warn_if_metaparam > > def warn_if_metaparam(param, default) > if self.name =~ /^system/ and param=='schedule' > return > else > orig_warn_if_metaparam(param, default) > end > end > > Seems like there are other messages in puppet that people find annoying > than helpful: > https://github.com/boxen/puppet-boxen/blob/master/lib/ > puppet/provider/package/hax.rb > > This seems pretty hideous, and I'm wondering if there are more sensible > way to solve this. > > We recently added "disable_warnings" and right now it can only deal with deprecations, but the design was such that it can affect other warnings as well. It would, however, be a global setting and I think it should stay as such. I think what I'm trying to say is that, in this case, you really should rename that parameter for the sake of your users :) > Thanks, > > Nan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-dev/53CD4FCF.1050201%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Andrew Parker a...@puppetlabs.com Freenode: zaphod42 Twitter: @aparker42 Software Developer *Join us at PuppetConf 2014 <http://www.puppetconf.com/>, September 22-24 in San Francisco* *Register by May 30th to take advantage of the Early Adopter discount <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf-early-adopter> **—**save $349!* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANhgQXud8j-xEGiFoUONS5xhzov6DFC3akSrsBHtWTmmK%3Dcy1g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
