If you look at what I tried to do you'll realize that's not the case. I understand what you're saying, but the issue is one of Puppet not supporting its own 'syntactic sugar' consistently. I created an array (this is not a convenience for a large number of machines, it's a requirement) but since it's an array of hashes rather than an array of strings it doesn't work right. That's a bug, plain and simple. There's no point in having hashes if we can't use defines or virtuals with them without breakage.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Aaron Grewell wrote: > > > Here's the thing though: since arrays are the only native method of > looping, Puppet needs to handle arrays of all native types well. If it > doesn't, from an end-user perspective that's broken. > > See, there's the crux of the issue: arrays are *not* a method of looping. > Puppet's DSL is declarative, not procedural (imperative). What you are > thinking of as "looping" is simply a convenient shorthand (syntactic sugar > is the appropriate term). If you are thinking in procedural terms (which > we've all done at one point or another), you're simply going to run around > in circles ranting that Puppet is broken until you get your head wrapped > around its declarative nature (much like I did/do). Puppet is not > procedural. Never has been, never will be. > > You can probably meet your needs by thinking about the desired state in > different terms and using extlookup, or using custom functions. If you are > really insane, you can modify the Puppet backend to execute a file and read > the output instead of reading the file directly, which might allow you to > dynamically generate the manifests you want applied, though the added > complexity may well be a net loss. > > In short, if you are thinking "procedural", then you have not yet drunk the > Kool-Aide. Join us. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
