I am looking at https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib#getvar
My manifests
class test::var inherits stdlib {
$datalocation = 'site::data'
$bar = getvar("${datalocation}::bar")
# Equivalent to $bar = $site::data::bar
notify{"This is getvar() testing variable, Now bar equal to ${bar}":}
}
when i run puppet on client i get blank
[root@401 ~]# puppet agent --test --noop
...
...
Notice: /Stage[main]/test::Var/Notify[This is getvar() testing variable, Now bar equal to '']/message: current_value absent, should be This is getvar() testing variable, Now bar equal to '' (noop)
Am i missing something?
When I run the above code, part of my puppet output is the following warning:
Warning: Scope(Class[Test::Var]): Could not look up qualified variable 'site::data::bar'; class site::data could not be found
What this is saying is that site::data::bar
doesn't exist in the current scope. If you define it first, then your assignment and following notification will work as expected.
class site::data {
$bar = 'foo'
}
class test::var inherits stdlib {
require site::data
$datalocation = 'site::data'
$bar = getvar("${datalocation}::bar")
# Equivalent to $bar = $site::data::bar
notify{"This is getvar() testing variable, Now bar equal to ${bar}":}
}