Why is target a property and no param
Stefan Schulte
I have a general question about parameter vs property. I always thought
that a property is something that can be insync or outofsync, so thats
something that puppet can check and correct.
But when I look at the current types, then "target" is always defined as
a property. So can target be outofsync? I guess not, because (when I see
it correctly, e.g. for the parsedfile provider) when we ask the provider
about is the is-value of target it will always report the shouldvalue
from the resource. So it is always in sync. Shouldn't target be a
parameter then?
-Stefan
Luke Kanies
The reason target is a property is because a resource can be moved from one file to another, and the only way I could find to implement that was to make target a property.
It's always felt messy to do it that way, but I've never found another way.
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Stefan Schulte
> The reason target is a property is because a resource can be moved from one file to another, and the only way I could find to implement that was to make target a property.
>
> It's always felt messy to do it that way, but I've never found another way.
Is this feature used anywhere? At least it's not what I expect puppet to
do and I'm a bit afraid that managing e.g. an ssh_authorized_key for one
user can erase the key from the authorized keys file of other users
as soon as puppet is aware of that second target.
-Stefan
Luke Kanies
I think the ssh_authorized_key type is one of the reasons I set it up that way, actually.
It's kind of an automatic byproduct of how resources are managed across multiple files - all files are considered to be a single pool of resources, so you have to have a means of saying you want a resource moved from one file to another.
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