Puppet users - Jul 2013 - is there a way to declare all classes in a namespace?

Say I have the following classes:

foo
foo::bar::one
foo::bar::two

Is there a way to declare all classes in the foo::bar namespace at once?

I would like a way to easily add resources to a namespace in a module by 
just adding a proper file in modules/foo/bar/three.pp and then letting some 
statement in class foo just declare the new foo::bar::three class without 
my having to edit class foo and statically declare.

Thanks for any info.   

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On Friday, July 12, 2013 11:21:09 AM UTC-7, m4l...@gmail.com
wrote:
>
> Say I have the following classes:
>
> foo
> foo::bar::one
> foo::bar::two
>
> Is there a way to declare all classes in the foo::bar namespace at once?
>

Not really, but you can have foo::bar look like:

class foo::bar {
  include foo::bar::one
  include foo::bar::two
  ...
  include foo::bar::eleventy
}
 
And then you only need to change a single place, and everywhere that needs 
it can just do "include foo::bar".

There are no automagic ways to do that, and having an automagic way to do 
it seems really dangerous and like a really bad idea to me.

> I would like a way to easily add resources to a namespace in a module by 
> just adding a proper file in modules/foo/bar/three.pp and then letting some
> statement in class foo just declare the new foo::bar::three class without 
> my having to edit class foo and statically declare.
>
> Thanks for any info.   
>
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On Friday, July 12, 2013 3:20:05 PM UTC-5, llowder
wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 12, 2013 11:21:09 AM UTC-7, m4l...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Say I have the following classes:
>>
>> foo
>> foo::bar::one
>> foo::bar::two
>>
>> Is there a way to declare all classes in the foo::bar namespace at
once?
>>
>
>
> Not really, but you can have foo::bar look like:
>
> class foo::bar {
>   include foo::bar::one
>   include foo::bar::two
>   ...
>   include foo::bar::eleventy
> }
>  
> And then you only need to change a single place, and everywhere that needs 
> it can just do "include foo::bar".
>
> There are no automagic ways to do that, and having an automagic way to do 
> it seems really dangerous and like a really bad idea to me.
>
>
I agree.  Moreover, if you''re creating so many classes that the
requested
behavior would be a significant win, then the classes at issue are probably 
very repetitive, a set of variations on a common theme.  Such a collection 
of classes probably wants to be a bunch of instances of a single defined 
type instead.

However, if the OP really has to have this, then it should be pretty easy 
to write a code-generator that will automatically update his top-level 
class to declare all the other classes in the module.  That''s not quite
what was requested, but it''s about as close as you can get.


John

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