On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:47 AM, R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote: > hello, > > I would like to add a metaparameter - which I think is easy now via > Type.newmetaparam. >
We haven't been thinking of metaparameters as a general purpose extension point. This came up once before that I know of, about a year ago, and there's a little discussion of this in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4281. The conclusion we reached at the time was, more or less, to explore whether the desired change could be accomplished with a puppet function and/or a change to core puppet. > > The thing that I can't seem to find any example of though is how to > make this metaparameter do something on the nodes for all providers > or all types. > Imagine there's a metaparam that might describe how to test a resource > works, something like: > > service{"httpd": validate => "check_http --port 80 -H localhost"} > > I'd then want to have some code that would be run on the agent nodes > for any resource that has this param set. > I don't think something like this exists per se, but 'validate' might be one such example of something worth adding to core puppet. Fwiw, one resource-specific example added not too long ago is the file type's validate_cmd: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/type.html#file-attribute-validate_cmd . Also, I'm guessing you're aware but another tool in the toolbox *might* include the postrun_command setting (which is *not* per-provider as you were thinking): https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/configuration.html#postruncommand More broadly, there has been some discussion on a few threads and tickets about making the agent lifecycle provide some more useful hooks, so I'd love to hear more ideas about how to improve this. Thanks! Kylo > Does anyone have any hints or know of an example of this? > > thanks > > --- > R.I.Pienaar > > -- > 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/70254077.345165.1454514435921.JavaMail.zimbra%40devco.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kylo Ginsberg | k...@puppetlabs.com | irc: kylo | twitter: @kylog -- 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/CALsUZFHniTYyYU0ThP-Jk37f6QXroJ0P0-K0PkbRPXMsdB6v0Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
