Hi Rob,

Thanks for posting that, this is probably the best practical example that
I've seen so far.

Trevor

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Rob Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Those three types will be the majority of what you use, sure, but Optional
> and Enum are awesome. Pattern seems potent but may be difficult to use.
> Check out how this module uses the type system:
> https://github.com/jlambert121/jlambert121-puppet/blob/master/manifests/init.pp
>
>
> On Monday, February 1, 2016, Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'll give it a shot again (unfortunately, I have legacy 3.X users so
>> updating to use 4.X features will take some time).
>>
>> Honestly, I still haven't found a compelling reason for anything besides
>> Booleans, Undef, and Strings. Even the stdlib code converts everything to a
>> string due to the issues with dealing with Strings and Numbers together.
>>
>> Are there any compelling cases that I'm missing out there?
>>
>> Happy to fork this to a different thread.
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Eli Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would *love* to see something like this hit the core language, but
>>>> there are quite a few cases where I have items that can be a Boolean,
>>>> Number, or String (I'm still not loving needing to convert Numbers to
>>>> Strings everywhere for consistency) so it gets difficult to use the Puppet
>>>> 4 inbuilt validators.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's where Variants come in:
>>> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.2/reference/lang_data_abstract.html#variant
>>>
>>> Variant[Boolean, Number, String] means "must be a Boolean, a Number, or
>>> a String", which sounds like exactly what you want.
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