puppet-lint-absolute_classname-check

A puppet-lint plugin to check that classes are included by their absolute name.

Table of contents

• Installing
  • From the command line
  • In a Gemfile
• Checks
  • Relative class name inclusion
  • Relative class reference
• Transfer notice
• Release Informaion

Installing

From the command line

$ gem install puppet-lint-absolute_classname-check

In a Gemfile

gem 'puppet-lint-absolute_classname-check', :require => false

Checks

Relative class name inclusion

Including a class by a relative name might lead to unexpected results in Puppet 3. That's why a lot of manifests explicitly include by the absolute name. Since Puppet 4 names are always absolute and this is no longer needed. This lint check helps to clean up your manifests.

What you have done

include ::foobar

What you should have done

include foobar

Disabling the check

To disable this check, you can add --no-relative_classname_inclusion-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-relative_classname_inclusion-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_relative_classname_inclusion')

Relative class reference

What you have done

Class['::foo'] -> Class['::bar']

What you should have done

Class['foo'] -> Class['bar']

Disabling the check

To disable this check, you can add --no-relative_classname_reference-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-relative_classname_reference-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_relative_classname_reference')

Transfer Notice

This plugin was originally authored by Camptocamp. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Community take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of Camptocamp.

Previously: https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-lint-absolute_classname-check

License

This gem is licensed under the Apache-2 license.

Release information

To make a new release, please do:

• Update the version in the puppet-lint-absolute_classname-check.gemspec file
• Install gems with bundle install --with release --path .vendor
• generate the changelog with bundle exec rake changelog
• Create a PR with it
• After it got merged, push a tag. Travis will do the actual release