5 module Puppet::Parser::Functions
6 newfunction(:parseyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
7 This function accepts YAML as a string and converts it into the correct
10 The optional second argument can be used to pass a default value that will
11 be returned if the parsing of YAML string have failed.
14 raise ArgumentError, 'Wrong number of arguments. 1 or 2 arguments should be provided.' unless arguments.length >= 1
18 YAML::load(arguments[0]) || arguments[1]
19 # in ruby 1.9.3 Psych::SyntaxError is a RuntimeException
20 # this still needs to catch that and work also on rubies that
21 # do not have Psych available.
22 rescue StandardError, Psych::SyntaxError => e
33 # vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :