in retrospect, it might be very presumptuous of me to assume that this use
case is covered under futures.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Dan Bode <d...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> that's is an interesting example. If we actually did implement futures in
> puppet, I would expect that to result in an error.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Stefan Schulte <
> stefan.schu...@taunusstein.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:27:58AM -0800, Dan Bode wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Alaric <paxindust...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi all! I've been trying to work with classes in my templates, it
>> seems
>> > > like a really useful feature. I'm running on puppet .25.5 from EPEL
>> and
>> > > really wanted to start making use of the ability to pivot on classes
>> that
>> > > have been included in the catalog. It *seems* as though the templates
>> are
>> > > only cognecent of defined classes that precede the included module in
>> the
>> > > site.pp file. Is that the expected behavior? For my testing I used
>> the
>> > > example code on the wiki, and is included in the site_syslog module
>> > >
>> > > <% classes.each do |klass| -%>
>> > > # The class <%= klass %> is defined
>> > > <% end -%>
>> >
>> > This is unfortunately true. It's possible that this may work in a future
>> > version.
>>
>> I think thats near to impossible. What if I do something like
>>
>> $number_of_classes = inline_template(<%= classes.size)
>> if ($number_of_classes > 10) {
>> include class_not_previously_included
>> }
>>
>> what should the value of $number_of_classes be. Should it take
>> class_not_previously_included into account? And what if the number of
>> included classes without class_not_previously_included is exactly 10.
>> Then not including whould be right (because we than have 10 classes
>> included so we dont need the extra one) and including whould be right at
>> the same time (because whould then have 11 classes included). And now
>> image I would say
>> if ($number_of_classes < 10) { include foobar } and with foobar included
>> it whould be exactly 10.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
>
>
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