I'm trying to set up Puppet to use templates in order to create configuration files for our servers. The current way I am doing this is by using inheritance to pass default values to a class. This allows me to properly separate the data from the rest of the code. An example of this structure is as follows:
class grading_properties(
$home='tomcat-deploy',
$financialScoreHigh = $grading_properties_defaults::financialScoreHigh,
$financialScoreLow = $grading_properties_defaults::financialScoreLow,
$qualityScoreHigh = $grading_properties_defaults::qualityScoreHigh,
$qualityScoreLow = $grading_properties_defaults::qualityScoreLow,
)inherits grading_properties_defaults {
file{"${base}/${home}/company-conf/grading.properties" :
ensure => present,
mode => '0755',
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
content => template("company/company-conf_pr/grading.properties.erb")
}
}
This class is responsible for generating the "grading.properties" config file based on the "grading.properties.erb" template. The "grading_properties_defaults" class which it inherits looks like this:
class grading_properties_defaults{
$financialScoreHigh = 4
$financialScoreLow = 7
$qualityScoreHigh = 6000
$qualityScoreLow = 4000
}
The problem I am having is when I try to create the class using
class{ "grading_properties" :
financialScoreHigh => 10,
}
from a class in the same module, I get the following error from puppet apply:
Error: Could not find parent resource type 'grading_properties_defaults' of type hostclass in production at /home/git/puppet/modules/company/manifests/grading_properties.pp:1 on node sv1.company.qa0
What is the proper way to reference a class in the same module?
It turns out I simply need to fully qualify my class names in order for puppet to find them. E.g. class grading_properties_defaults
should be modulename::grading_properties_defaults