[Puppet Users] How do you call a custom function from another module?

Ah, I've got it: simply include the module then call the function
unqualified:

include utils
# ...
basename(args)


David

Hmm.. actually there's still something amiss.

Doing the include as described above changed the error from:

Error 400 on SERVER: Unknown function utils::basename


to:

Error 400 on SERVER: Function 'basename' does not return a value


..which made me think it was now being found.

I then fixed the bug by adding to basename definition the required :type =>
:rvalue .

However, instead of solving the issue I now see the message:

Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `basename'


Any suggestions would be most welcome at this point!

Thank you.

David

I fixed the problem by prefixing the one-line definition of basename with a
return.

Should I infer Puppet doesn't support the standard Ruby mechanism of
returning the last evaluated result within a function?

I did have:

module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:basename, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
File.basename(*args)
end
end

..which resulted in:

err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
undefined method `basename'

I now have:

module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:basename, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
return File.basename(*args)
end
end

..which works like a charm.

Cheers,

David