resource title is unique for each instance. what about resource name?

[David Portabella]

as explained here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html#title-and-name

resource title is guaranteed to be unique for each instance.

I thought that resource name was not required to be unique.

however this code suggests the opposite:

my_resource { r1:

  name => 'r'

}

my_resource { r2:

  name => 'r'

}

define my_resource {

}

$ puppet apply test.pp

Error: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot alias My_resource[r2] to ["r"] at /private/tmp/a.pp:7; resource ["My_resource", "r"] already declared at /private/tmp/a.pp:3 at /private/tmp/a.pp:7 on node mac4c.local

so, is resource name also unique for each instance?

where is it explained?

I do not see this info on the documentation:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html#title-and-name

[Craig Dunn]

The resource title and namevar must be unique for any resource as documented here...

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_resources.html#uniqueness

Defined resource types follow the same rules and the $name variable is always assumed to be a namevar.

Craig

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[David Portabella]

great, thanks!