Puppet users - Nov 2006 - Class methods do not work with Puppet 0.20

Hello puppet-users,

I am having trouble getting my manifests to apply with Puppet 0.20.
Here''s what I''ve got:

I have a generic box class to setup my home environment on a given
machine. The class is mostly made up of file types, but I also have a
few methods that include file and package types amongs others. eg:

class box {
  $owner = "owner"
  $group = "group"
  $bg = "white"
  $fg = "black"

  define zsh($bg, $fg) {
    package { "zsh":
      name => zsh ,
      ensure => present ,
      provider => freebsd
    }
    file { "zshrc":
      content => template("zshrc.erb") ,
      path => "/home/$owner/.zshrc" ,
      ensure => present ,
      owner => $owner ,
      group => $group ,
      mode => 640
    }
}

Then I have another class which inherits the above box class and
overrides some of the methods like this:

class desktop inherits box {
  Zsh {
    bg => "blue" ,
    fg => "white"
  }
}

This worked fine with previous (0.19.x) versions of puppet, but after
the upgrade, puppet simply seems to ignore my methods all together. I
also tried to create methods that dont require overriding, but that
didnt change a thing.

All stand-alone types (not in a method declaration) work fine and
puppet does not generate any warnings or errors regarding the methods,
making me think there is something obvious I am missing.

Can anyone see it? Maybe I''m approaching this from not-so-good-angle?
Any comments and ideas appreciated. This is running on FreeBSD 6.1 by
the way, with latest puppet and facter gems.


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zedenator

zedenator wrote:
> Hello puppet-users,
> 
> I am having trouble getting my manifests to apply with Puppet 0.20.
> Here''s what I''ve got:
> 
> I have a generic box class to setup my home environment on a given
> machine. The class is mostly made up of file types, but I also have a
> few methods that include file and package types amongs others. eg:
> 
> class box {
>   $owner = "owner"
>   $group = "group"
>   $bg = "white"
>   $fg = "black"
> 
>   define zsh($bg, $fg) {
>     package { "zsh":
>       name => zsh ,
>       ensure => present ,
>       provider => freebsd
>     }
>     file { "zshrc":
>       content => template("zshrc.erb") ,
>       path => "/home/$owner/.zshrc" ,
>       ensure => present ,
>       owner => $owner ,
>       group => $group ,
>       mode => 640
>     }
> }
> 
> Then I have another class which inherits the above box class and
> overrides some of the methods like this:
> 
> class desktop inherits box {
>   Zsh {
>     bg => "blue" ,
>     fg => "white"
>   }
> }
Was this supposed to be a default or a call to ''zsh''? 
I''m assuming a call.
> This worked fine with previous (0.19.x) versions of puppet, but after
> the upgrade, puppet simply seems to ignore my methods all together. I
> also tried to create methods that dont require overriding, but that
> didnt change a thing.
> 
> All stand-alone types (not in a method declaration) work fine and
> puppet does not generate any warnings or errors regarding the methods,
> making me think there is something obvious I am missing.
Ah, I see.  Yeah, there appears to be a bug somewhere in the 
interpreter; I agree that this is not behaving as expected.  I''d be 
surprised if this ever worked consistently though -- I don''t think 
there''s a place you can call the ''zsh'' definition
that would catch that
default, because subclasses can''t add defaults to objects defined in 
their base classes (this is possibly a bug).

I think I know what''s happening, but I''m not positive and I
don''t have
the time to track it down at the moment.

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