List of properties in provider

[Frederik Wagner]

Hi everyone,

currently I'm writing a custom provider to configure mailing lists.

In the provider I'm writing I need to access the list of all
properties (set or unset) defined in the type via 'newproperty'. I'm
wondering if there's a way to do that. It feels strange if there
wouldn't.

What I need to do:
Since upon initial creation of a mailing list not all properties can
be set, I need to put all defined properties into the @property_hash
to have them finally set by the flush method. Therefore I need code
like:

def exists?
... create mailing list...

all_properties_from_type.each { |prop|
@property_hash[prop] = @resource[prop] unless @resource[prop].nil?
}
end

Thanks for any help.

Bye
Frederik

[Nan Liu]

I don't know what your type is called (replace mailing_list with your type name):

Puppet::Type.type(:mailing_list).properties.each { ... }

FYI, puppet-dev is probably the better mailing list for these questions since the puppet core dev monitor that and would know if the internal API have been updated recently.

Thanks,

Nan

[Frederik Wagner]

Hi Nan,

thanks a lot. That works and gave me the right direction, in the end
one can use:
resource_type.validproperties (or self.class.resource_type.validproperties)

Next time I'll check out puppet-dev.

Bye
Frederik

P.S.: BTW nice introductory book ;-)

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