Found the problem. When passing an array to a define the default variable
name for the elements of the array is $name. This works:
define debugUsers {
> validate_string($name)
> notify { "username: \"${name}\"": }
> }
On Monday, April 21, 2014 11:31:52 AM UTC-6, Sean Korten wrote:
>
> So, I am trying to do something with a list (array) of users from hieara.
> Here is the yaml:
>
> profile::sysconfig::sftp_users: [ "joe", "bill", "nancy" ]
>
>
> In my profile I have a defined class "debugUsers" that I am calling with
> the array I got from hiera:
>
> class profile::sysconfig::sftpserver {
>> define debugUsers {
>> notify { "username: \"${user}\"": }
>> }
>> class doWork {
>> $users = hiera('profile::sysconfig::sftp_users')
>> validate_array($users)
>> debugUsers { $users: }
>> }
>> include doWork
>
> }
>
>
> From everything I know and have read that should give me a notify line for
> user in my array. But it doesn't. Instead I get this error from the agent:
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
>> Duplicate declaration: Notify[username: ""] is already declared in file
>> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/r10k/dev_users/modules/profile/manifests/sysconfig/sftpserver.pp:5;
>>
>> cannot redeclare at
>> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/r10k/dev_users/modules/profile/manifests/sysconfig/sftpserver.pp:5
>>
>
>
> Why am I getting duplicate null declarations? If I call out specific
> elements of the array I get back exactly what I would expect:
>
> class profile::sysconfig::sftpserver {
>> class doWork {
>> $users = hiera('profile::sysconfig::sftp_users')
>> validate_array($users)
>> notify { "user1: \"${users[0]}\"": }
>> notify { "user2: \"${users[1]}\"": }
>> notify { "user3: \"${users[2]}\"": }
>> }
>> include doWork
>
> }
>
>
> returns this:
>
> Notice: user1: "joe"
>> Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Sysconfig::Sftpserver::Dowork/Notify[user1:
>> "joe"]/message: defined 'message' as 'user1: "joe"'
>> Notice: user3: "nancy"
>> Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Sysconfig::Sftpserver::Dowork/Notify[user3:
>> "nancy"]/message: defined 'message' as 'user3: "nancy"'
>> Notice: user2: "bill"
>> Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Sysconfig::Sftpserver::Dowork/Notify[user2:
>> "bill"]/message: defined 'message' as 'user2: "bill"'
>
>
> I am sure this is something really stupid, but can someone point out what
> I'm doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> --Sean
>
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