On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, at 15:01, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 1:06:52 PM UTC-5, Ramin K wrote:
> >
> > On 6/4/18 8:25 AM, Peter Berghold wrote:
> > > I was looking at someone else's code one day last week and saw a pattern
> > > I've not seen before. Maybe that's what I get for developing Puppet code
> > > in a vacuum. :-)
> > >
> > > class someclass (
> > > $parm1 = $::someclass::params::parm1,
> > > $parm2 = $::someclass::params::parm2 # so far I get it.
> > > ) inherits someclass::params { # ok, I get it
> > >
> > > class{'someclass::package': } # OK
> > > -> class('someclass::configure':} # right...
> > > -> Class{'someclass':} # HUH? What does that
> > do?
> > > }
> > >
> > > Is that last step necessary and why?
> >
> >
> > The last step was fairly common in Puppet 2.7 code before Anchors.
>
>
>
> Are you sure about that, Ramin? I've been around Puppet since well before
> v2.7, and to the best of my knowledge, Class{'someclass':} (with capital
> 'C') is and always has been syntactically invalid. I'm prepared to learn
> something new today, but you'll need to point me to some docs to support
> your assertion.
>
> Myself, I'm inclined to guess that it's a simple typo, that an ordinary
> resource-style class declaration (with lowercase 'c') is what was intended.
>
class{'someclass::package': }
-> class('someclass::configure':}
-> Class["someclass"] # or -> Class[$name]
Is the correct version of this. It's a "soft" version of the anchor pattern,
because:
package{"foo": require => Class["someclass"]}
will have the inner classes completed before it without any crazy extra
resources and stuff and it handles the case most people actually care for - but
this is not a full contained class like contain() makes, you should probably
use contain() today.
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