Hi,
At the company I'm working at we have a script to automate the creation of symbolic links. This script is fed it's input from a puppet module.
The current version of the module uses files, but it is a wish to separate the code from the config, so the module can be shared, but the config can be kept. I've already setup a data structure that can be used and I build an erb template to provide the the main configuration. However, the current module has an option to 'add' files in a directory with user specified name, but same layout, so I'm now trying to rewrite the erb to an epp to provide the same output as the erb, but with the flexibility to add additional configurations.
The datastructure:
mod::var:
'section1':
'part.1':
source: 'source1'
target: 'target1'
'part.2':
source: 'source2'
target: 'target2'
'section2':
'part.3':
source: 'source3'
target: 'target3'
The erb:
<% @var.each do |section, entries| %>
[<%= section %>]<% entries.each do |entry, config| %><% config['source'] %> = <% config['target'] %><% end -%><% end %>
The output
[section1]
source1 = target1
source2 = target2
[section2]
source3 = target3
The 'part.1' key is needed as 'source' is not unique, 1 keyword is used to indicate that all files need to be linked to target dir. It was added to have a unique hash key, but is ignored in the output.
I've rewritten the erb to the epp below
<% | Hash[String, Hash[String, Hash[String, String]]] $var | -%><% include stdlib %><% $var.keys.sort.each do |$section, $entries| { %>
[<%= $section %>]<% $entries.keys.sort,each do |$entry, $config| { %><% $config['source'] %> = <% $config['target'] %><% } -%><% } %>
This should be correct, at least when I check with the very limited examples online, but it doesn't behave as I expect it to. This epp template results in an error that the 2nd keys operation expects a hash. When I remove the 2nd loop, just to see which sections i get, the output is as below.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Which looks more like an array index then the content of the keys. When I remove the sort.each, as I don't care about the sort order and each looks like you loop trough an array, the resulting output is empty. Thinking I'm using keys function wrong I even tried the code below:
<% | Hash[String, Hash[String, Hash[String, String]]] $var | -%><% include stdlib %><% $var.keys.each do |$section| { %>
[<%= $section %>]<% $var[$section].keys.each do |$entry| { %><% $var[$section][$entry]['source'] %> = <% $var[$section][$entry]['target'] %><% } -%><% } %>
But still the output is empty. A lookup of mod::var gives the expected output on the puppet server. (btw output is empty means in all cases 'mod::var is not used', comment lines printed by the template are given, including if it's using an epp or erb template)
init.pp section for this template:
file { 'name':
ensure => present,
content => epp('template.epp', {
var => $var,
}
}
Puppet version 4.10.9 on RHEL 6 and 7.
I would like to get the epp working and resulting in the same output as the erb. As the alternative would be a tricky rewrite of the configuration, which became so complex in the years it's in use I'd rather tackle the template (learn something new) then dive in the script while it's maintainer is on holiday.
Thanks in advance for any help I can get.
Jan Huijsmans
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