Puppet users - Oct 2010 - Uppercase Class Parameters Don't Work - Is this expected?

Hi,

I have a few parameterised classes and one wasn''t working. It turns out
it is because one of the parameters begins with an uppercase character.

It took me a long time to work this out and the syntax error wasn''t
very helpful in tracking it down.

Error:

err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could
not parse for environment production: Syntax error at
''NfsServer''; expected ''}'' at
/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:47 on node
ip-10-234-XXX-XXX.eu-west-1.compute.internal
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

Is this behaviour by design, and if so, where in the documentation can I
discover this? It wasn''t mentioned in the section on parameterised
classes or variables.

Hope this helps someone else.

Tom


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> Is this behaviour by design, and if so, where in the documentation
> can I discover this? It wasn''t mentioned in the section on
> parameterised classes or variables.
Some of the errors are documented here:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Puppet+Syntax+Errors

to help people in such cases. Furthermore, if you file a feature request
to improve the error reporting in your case, it will probably get
improved in future versions.

~pete

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Peter Meier
<peter.meier@immerda.ch>wrote:
> > Is this behaviour by design, and if so, where in the documentation
> > can I discover this? It wasn''t mentioned in the section on
> > parameterised classes or variables.
>
> Some of the errors are documented here:
>
>
>
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Puppet+Syntax+Errors
>
> to help people in such cases. Furthermore, if you file a feature request
> to improve the error reporting in your case, it will probably get
> improved in future versions.
>
>
+wade who had a similar issue in another email.

I just filed https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5119 to try and adress
these issues.

We''ve actually just hired a tech writer who will be starting in a
couple of
weeks, so please everyone file documentation bugs, it would be immensely
helpful.

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Nigel Kersten <nigel@puppetlabs.com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Peter Meier
<peter.meier@immerda.ch> wrote:
>
>> > Is this behaviour by design, and if so, where in the documentation
can I
>> > discover this? It wasn''t mentioned in the section on
parameterised
>> > classes or variables.
>> 
>> Some of the errors are documented here:
>> 
>>
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#
>> Puppet+Syntax+Errors
>> 
>> to help people in such cases. Furthermore, if you file a feature
request to
>> improve the error reporting in your case, it will probably get improved
in
>> future versions.
>> 
>
> +wade who had a similar issue in another email.
>
> I just filed https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5119 to try and adress
> these issues.
>
> We''ve actually just hired a tech writer who will be starting in a
couple of
> weeks, so please everyone file documentation bugs, it would be immensely
> helpful.
One of our sysadmins recently hit that uppercase tags in StoreConfig
didn''t
work, but lowercase did.  I never got around to finding out if this was a
PostgreSQL specific oddity in storeconfig or an actual restriction of the
tool, but while we are in the area...

        Daniel
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