Puppet type provider help?

[Jason McMahan]

Good day, 

I am reviewing a type and provider and would like input or help to better understand.

The provider is 

require 'puppet/util'

Puppet::Type.type(:winad_group).provide(:powershell) do

    confine :operatingsystem => :windows

    defaultfor :operatingsystem => :windows

    commands :powershell => Puppet::Util::Powershell.getPowershellCommand

The type is 

Puppet::Type.newtype(:winad_group) do

Then lastly there is a file /puppet/util/powershell.rb

class Powershell

  def self.getPowershellCommand()

    if File.exists?("#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\sysnative\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe")

      "#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\sysnative\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

    elsif File.exists?("#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe")

      "#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

    else

      'powershell.exe'

    end

  end

end

If i copy the syntax 

    commands :powershell => 

    if File.exist?("#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\sysnative\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe")

      "#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\sysnative\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

    elsif File.exist?("#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe")

      "#{ENV['SYSTEMROOT']}\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

    else

      'powershell.exe'

    end

Into my provider i am able to run the command correctly, why can i not autoload the powershell.rb file and properly use it across multiple providers?

Thank you for any help.

[Josh Cooper]

Not sure what's the issue is... but could you use the powershell module instead https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-powershell?

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[Jason McMahan]

Thank you for the Reply Josh,

I am new to working with types and providers. 

This module is me trying to learn because winad module is something we really need.

I was thinking if i could tell the winad module to use powershell module for its commands that would be great but i am not sure how to do that.

The module i am trying to get working for us is https://forge.puppet.com/shoneslab/winad

Any help or directions is greatly appreciated.

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