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Provide an extension library to Puppet modules
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Version information

  • 0.0.7 (latest)
  • 0.0.6
  • 0.0.5
  • 0.0.4
  • 0.0.3
  • 0.0.2
  • 0.0.1
released Jul 26th 2017
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x, 2019.8.x, 2019.7.x, 2019.5.x, 2019.4.x, 2019.3.x, 2019.2.x, 2019.1.x, 2019.0.x, 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 4.0.0

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  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'm4ce-extlib', '0.0.7'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add m4ce-extlib
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install m4ce-extlib --version 0.0.7

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Documentation

m4ce/extlib — version 0.0.7 Jul 26th 2017

Puppet extlib module

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
  3. Setup - The basics of getting started with the extlib module
  4. Reference - Types reference and additional functionalities
  5. Contact

Classes

Public Classes

The extlib class has no parameters.

Resource Types

generate_toml

Generate a TOML document from a Ruby hash.

Example:

$content = generate_toml({'foo' => 'bar'})

generate_json

Generate a JSON document from a Ruby hash.

Example:

$content = generate_json({'foo' => 'bar'})

The second parameter, if provided, are the options.

generate_json({'foo' => 'bar'}, {'indent' => "\t"})

generate_yaml

Generate a YAML document from a Ruby hash.

Example:

$content = generate_yaml({'foo' => 'bar'})

Functions

format_java_properties

Generate a Java config properties file from a Hash.

Parameters:

  • properties: the properties hash
  • separator (Optional): separator (default: '.')
  • classpath_attribute (Optional): a reserved key which will be used to specify the class. For instance, log4j configuration typically have a class attribute to specify things like appender class.
  • prefix (Optional): string to prefix all the properties with
$content = extlib::format_java_properties({'rootLogger" => ['INFO', 'STDOUT'], 'appender" => {'class' => 'org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender', 'layout' => {'class' => 'org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout', 'ConversionPattern' => '[%p] %d %t %c - %m%n'}}}, '.', 'class', 'log4j')