I thought there were dangers with Virtual Resource being accidentally realized sometimes?
We found a super-hacky way to call functions at the end of a compile which we use in https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-compliance_markup/blob/master/manifests/map.pp. It would be *really nice* if there were an actual 'hook in here, no resources will be processed after this point' hook. Trevor On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindb...@puppet.com > wrote: > On 16/04/18 17:38, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > >> How difficult would it be to create a third type of resource which is an >> 'ephemeral resource' whose only purpose is data collection on a host to be >> used by some other collector? >> >> These items would not be part of the catalog or added to the graph but >> would instead just hang around for reference during compilation. >> >> This would fix the catalog explosion issue when you start doing exported >> resources based on large numbers of things and/or things like firewall >> rules and copious file_line resources. >> >> Basically, a 'data' -> 'collector' pattern where you can >> optimize...well...everything into a MUCH smaller catalog that is sent to >> the client for processing. >> >> > Sounds a bit like the existing virtual resources, but with a better > collection mechanism. Would not be too difficult to write a function that > takes a data type predicate to match against virtual resources > data type predicate) and then calling a lambda with each. > > Virtual resources do not end up in the catalog unless they are realized. > With the function I imagined, you would select virtual resources and then > do whatever you want in the lambda. > > The function should probably return an Iterator over the resources. That > can then be iterated with each, map, or reduce. > > The issue then is when to call that function - you want it at the very end > which we do not have a mechanism for. > > The virtual collector could be modified to accept a lambda - since > collection runs late it would be at the right time. This is a much bigger > change naturally as it changes the language. > > - henrik > > > -- > > Visit my Blog "Puppet on the Edge" > http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.se/ > > -- > 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/ms > gid/puppet-dev/pb32pa%24d3q%241%40blaine.gmane.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 x788 -- 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%2BFoUUaCqmHhKjUWiFRyqFF3%2Bc5BpgLEHe-faYZxcyUutcGA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
