4 module Puppet::Parser::Functions
5 newfunction(:is_string, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-DOC
6 Returns true if the variable passed to this function is a string.
10 function_deprecation([:is_string, 'This method is deprecated, please use the stdlib validate_legacy function,
11 with Stdlib::Compat::String. There is further documentation for validate_legacy function in the README.'])
13 raise(Puppet::ParseError, "is_string(): Wrong number of arguments given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.empty?
17 # when called through the v4 API shim, undef gets translated to nil
18 result = type.is_a?(String) || type.nil?
20 if result && (type == type.to_f.to_s || type == type.to_i.to_s)
28 # vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :