Re: Template Nodes considered harmful

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On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Digant C Kasundra wrote:
> --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:28 AM -0500 Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> wrote:
> >> As shown in the example, this allows for site defaults and per-node
> >> overrides
> >> for variables which will be propagated to the genericwebserver.
> >
> > Note that this is still file-order dependent, unfortunately -- if
> > that class was already included elsewhere, then the variable override
> > won't take.
>
> Yeah, this is partly why we don't use variables and instead use definitions
> and override those definitions when needed, as Russ described.

So, you are using 

| node muh {
|       webserver{
|               webserver:
|                       var1=>val1, 
|                       var2=>val2
|       }
| }
| define webserver($var1, $var2) { include webserver }

where I would write 

| node muh {
|       
|       $var1=val1
|       $var2=val2
| 
|       include webserver
| }

Are you (planning on) using the external node support?


Regards, David
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