Hi John,
thanks for your answer, first of all I must say I just wanted to experiment
and learn, it's not like I'm going to put such "awful hacks" :-) in
production....mostly because I guess it's easy they can be changed over the
time as they are not part of puppet DSL and so, it can be harder to
maintain and for other colleagues to understand.
OK, now to the point...I forgot to include the node definition, sorry about
that, it looks like:
node hostname {
class {'test1': }
test1::print {'test11':
message => 'test11',
}
test1::print {'test12':
message => 'test13',
}
test1::print {'test13':
message => 'test13',
}
So I understand that when you say I haven't defined any resource it's
because I forgot to mention that part, right? If so, why the define types
are not showing up in the file? Also, as you can see in the content of the
file I included in my previous message, Class[test1] was declared and
showed in the content of the file, but the File resource itself was not
there when the template was built.
I have the feeling the template is evaluated before all this resources are
present in the catalog...am I wrong? Is that expected behavior?
Thanks.
Sergio.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:23:47 PM UTC+2, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 9, 2013 6:13:46 PM UTC-5, sjr wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been doing some tests with some internal methods just to mess a
>> little and learn a bit about puppet internals but found myself in a
>> situation which I don't really understand and I was hoping someone around
>> could help me to get it.
>>
>> I have a test module with the following init.pp:
>>
>> class test1
>> {
>>
>>
>>
>> file
>> {'/tmp/test1':
>>
>>
>>
>> content =>
>> template('test1/test1.erb'),
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Test1::Print <| |> ->
>> File['/tmp/test1']
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> The define test1::print looks like:
>>
>> define test1::print
>> (
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> $message
>>
>>
>>
>> )
>> {
>>
>>
>>
>> notify{$message:
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> So nothing really special, then in the template I try to catch all the
>> resources in the catalog with "scope.catalog.resources" method, nothing I
>> came up with by myself I saw it in a module and thought it was a neat trick
>> and wanted to try it and learn what else I could do with this kind of stuff.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that the template seems to be "compiled" before
>> all the resources are in the catalog as the file only contains the
>> following list of resources:
>>
>> Stage[main]
>> Class[Settings]
>> Class[main]
>> Node[default]
>> Class[Test1]
>>
>> In puppet's output, the relationships seem to be well defined but feels
>> like puppet is somehow applying (catching?) the template even before
>> creating the actual file.
>>
>> The template has the following content:
>>
>> <% @test = scope.catalog.resources.select { |r| r.type } -%>
>> <% @test.each do |t| -%>
>> <%= t %>
>> <% end %>
>>
>> Am I missing anything? I expected to see in the file the defined type
>> test1::print...
>>
>>
> You are missing several things, including at least
>
> 1. Puppet relationships, such as are declared via the arrow operators
> or 'require' and 'before' metaparameters, influence only the order in
> which
> resources are applied by the agent. They have no bearing on the order of
> events during catalog compilation.
> 2. Defined types are *types*, not resources. They are thoroughly
> analogous to native resource types such as File. You could see *
> instances* of defined types among your catalog resources if you
> declared any (you didn't), but you will not see the defined types
> themselves.
> 3. scope.catalog.resources is an awful hack, not a "neat trick",
> because it is sensitive to when during the compilation process the
> template
> is evaluated. To build robust and reliable classes and modules you must
> avoid depending on mechanisms that are sensitive to evaluation order
> (sometimes inaccurately called "parse order", including by me).
>
>
> John
>
>
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