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Steven / Nico
Type:
- xml/
- parameters/
- optional_parameters
me: too long
User interested it type:
- which arguments are available
- ls /path/to/type (steven)
Steven / proposal:
- manifest/gencode: .meta
- attribute directly in dir
"cdist-help" <type bla>
- if no direct path
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Doc proposal (Nico):
man cdist-type-<name>
Directory structure:
"easy to ls -lR and understand what it does"
ls -lR $(cdist-type-path "typename")/meta/
ls -lR $(cdist-path type "typename")/meta/
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What consumes most type?
- Writing types, because they are functionality
- Define attributes
- required/optional
Type documentation
$type/.meta/required_parameters/path contains
"Path in which file is created"
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Doc of every type:
- required/optional parameters
- description
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! Validation of type input:
Not only required/optional parameters:
- handling of either content/source arguments
- validate script in type?
- seperate validation from manifest may be senseful
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Explorer per type?
- helpful or evil?
- helps to summarise/get information near ressource that needs it
- emphasises type specific explorers
-> explorer should be reusable by everybody!
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Explorer delivers facts
- central repo
- not being able to override
- may be helpful to override facts for debugging (i.e. os=redhat)
- one explorer returns one fact
- facts via environment variables
- proposal steven: UPPER_CASE
- __fact_os (Nico)
- DEFINE path_to_explorer
- DEFINE explorer
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