I'll give it a shot again (unfortunately, I have legacy 3.X users so updating to use 4.X features will take some time).
Honestly, I still haven't found a compelling reason for anything besides Booleans, Undef, and Strings. Even the stdlib code converts everything to a string due to the issues with dealing with Strings and Numbers together. Are there any compelling cases that I'm missing out there? Happy to fork this to a different thread. Trevor On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Eli Young <elysc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Trevor Vaughan <tvaug...@onyxpoint.com> > wrote: > >> I would *love* to see something like this hit the core language, but >> there are quite a few cases where I have items that can be a Boolean, >> Number, or String (I'm still not loving needing to convert Numbers to >> Strings everywhere for consistency) so it gets difficult to use the Puppet >> 4 inbuilt validators. >> > > That's where Variants come in: > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.2/reference/lang_data_abstract.html#variant > > Variant[Boolean, Number, String] means "must be a Boolean, a Number, or a > String", which sounds like exactly what you want. > > -- > 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/CAE%2BtgeMbfHhRC76XJ%2BKz0czJsiazgfadQ%2BJ0oU3%3Di9sKtu_fGw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAE%2BtgeMbfHhRC76XJ%2BKz0czJsiazgfadQ%2BJ0oU3%3Di9sKtu_fGw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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/CANs%2BFoWKSv2P-yOMD1kzfPYima_KVwzbyTRt6ToaejxqyLebYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
