Puppet users - Dec 2010 - puppet resource, and parameters that take arrays...

So, I had occasion to try and use the ''puppet resource''
operation for
the first time, and colour me foolish but I can''t actually work it
out.

Specifically, I can''t figure out how to get an array of values set:

] puppet resource host some.example.com ip=127.0.0.1
host_aliases=www.example.com,mail.example.com

That doesn''t work.  Neither does giving the host_aliases argument
multiple times, or "[www,mail]", or
"[''www'',''mail'']", and I
can''t
identify any other approach from the docs.  Now, obviously I can dive
into the code, but I figured to ask if anyone else can tell me the
answer without having to do that I can be happy. :)

Regards,
    Daniel
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>
>
> Its helpful if you include error messages, but the answer is
puppet resource host some.example.com ip=127.0.0.1
host_aliases="[''
www.example.com'',''mail.example.com'']"

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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 15:37, William Van Hevelingen <wvan13@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Its helpful if you include error messages
There were no error messages, just incorrect behaviour, but it is a
fair request. :)
> but the answer is
> puppet resource host some.example.com ip=127.0.0.1
>
host_aliases="[''www.example.com'',''mail.example.com'']"
Sorry, nope:

daniel@ea:~$ puppet resource host some.example.com target=${PWD}/demo
ip=127.0.0.1
host_aliases="[''www.example.com'',''mail.example.com'']"
notice: /Host[some.example.com]/ensure: created
host { ''some.example.com'':
    ip => ''127.0.0.1'',
    host_aliases =>
[''[''www.example.com'',''mail.example.com'']''],
    target => ''/Users/daniel/demo'',
    ensure => ''present''
}
daniel@ea:~$ cat demo
# HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Fri Dec 24 15:49:25 +1100 2010
# HEADER: by puppet.  While it can still be managed manually, it
# HEADER: is definitely not recommended.
127.0.0.1	some.example.com
[''www.example.com'',''mail.example.com'']

That would ... well, "not work" is a nice way to put it.  Puppet just
did as asked, but broke my hosts file in the process.  If I used that
live. :)

Regards,
    Daniel
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>
> Sorry, nope:
>
Ack my bad misread the output.
>
>
I think its a bug, I seem to remember that the parsedfile provider
doesn''t
always work correctly under puppet resource

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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 16:04, William Van Hevelingen <wvan13@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Sorry, nope:
[...]
> Ack my bad misread the output.
No problem there.  I figured that this time I better actually include
the "error" message though. ;)
> I think its a bug, I seem to remember that the parsedfile provider
doesn''t
> always work correctly under puppet resource
My impression is that it isn''t parsing the command line properly to
extract the array data, but it sounds like I am going to have to dig
into the code.  Oh, well. :)

Regards,
    Daniel
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