Hi,
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it caught my interest.
My scenario is that I'd like to re-use the title of an nginx server instance
in, say, the log file for that server instance. However, since I don't want to
touch the nginx module itself, it seems I have to wrap its server class in one
of my own to allow setting this kind of defaults - but I have found no way to
use $title in this way.
The best would be if I could do something like this - assuming nginx::server is
a module class already defined:
nginx::server {
default:
$access_log => "${nginx::logdir}/${mytitle}.log",
...,
;
'my-fine-443-server':
listen_port => 443,
;
}
Here it would also be helpful if I could somehow re-use the default values in
the individual instances too - I might not know what the default values are,
but I would know what to do with them (append '.log' for instance, or set
listen_port to the same value as ssl_port or vice versa).
Even being able to do the following would be better than what we're currently
doing, which is repeating the fully-typed access log line (and all the other
similar entries) for every instance:
nginx::server { 'my-fine-443-server':
$access_log => "${nginx::logdir}/${mytitle}.log",
listen_port => 443,
}
Not sure how I could use functions here either, as I want this to happen at
instantiation time, not in the module itself.
Am I hoping for too much? Missed something?
/Eirik
> On 7 Oct 2018, at 11:35, Henrik Lindberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you are on a reasonably modern Puppet version you should do it like this:
>
> class myclass(
> String $base_dir,
> Optional[String] $conf_dir = "${base_dir}/conf"
> ) {
> }
>
> I tested it as well:
>
> class myclass(
> String $base_dir,
> Optional[String] $conf_dir = "${base_dir}/conf"
> ) {
> notice "base_dir = ${base_dir}, conf_dir = ${conf_dir}"
> }
> class { myclass: base_dir => 'yay' }
>
> With the result:
>
> Notice: Scope(Class[Myclass]): base_dir = yay, conf_dir = yay/conf
>
> And when executed like this:
>
> class myclass(
> String $base_dir,
> Optional[String] $conf_dir = "${base_dir}/conf"
> ) {
> notice "base_dir = ${base_dir}, conf_dir = ${conf_dir}"
> }
> class { myclass: base_dir => 'yay', conf_dir => 'not yay' }
>
> The result is:
>
> Notice: Scope(Class[Myclass]): base_dir = yay, conf_dir = not_yay
>
> Which I think is what you wanted.
>
> If the logic you need for coming up with a default value is complex, it can
> be written as a function to which you present the input as arguments. The
> above could have been written:
>
> function mymodule::conf_default(String $base) { "${base}/conf" }
> class myclass(
> String $base_dir,
> Optional[String] $conf_dir = mymodule::conf_default($base_dir)
> ) {
> }
>
> Which for the case you showed is total overkill, but good to know if
> you need something more complex in another place in your code.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Best,
> - henrik
>
>
>
>> On 2018-10-06 18:15, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: > You need to do
>> like this:
>> class myClass (
>> String $base_dir,
>> Optional[String] $conf_dir,
>> ) {
>> if $myClass::conf_dir == undef {
>> $myClass::actual_conf_dir = "$myClass::base_dir/conf”
>> } else {
>> $myClass::actual_conf_dir = $myClass::conf_dir
>> }
>> … and then use $myClass::actual_conf_dir in the template
>> }
>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 12:41 PM, Jody Des Roches <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to set default values for parameters that will be passed to epp
>>> templates. However, the default value is based on another parameter. I
>>> understand that variables are immutable but this is a parameter that
>>> shouldn't be touched unless it wasn't set.
>>>
>>> Here is an example construct with a few of my syntax attempts.
>>>
>>> class myClass (
>>> String $base_dir,
>>> Optional[String] $conf_dir,
>>> ) {
>>> #Attempt 1: Failed
>>> if $myClass::conf_dir == undef { $myClass::conf_dir =
>>> "$myClass::base_dir/conf" }
>>>
>>> #Attempt 2: Failed
>>> if !$myClass::conf_dir { $myClass::conf_dir = "$myClass::base_dir/conf" }
>>>
>>> #Attempt 3: Failed
>>> unless $myClass::conf_dir { $myClass::conf_dir = "$myClass::base_dir/conf" }
>>> }
>>>
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