#
# parseyaml.rb
#
-
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
- newfunction(:parseyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
-This function accepts YAML as a string and converts it into the correct
-Puppet structure.
- EOS
- ) do |arguments|
+ newfunction(:parseyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-DOC
+ @summary
+ This function accepts YAML as a string and converts it into the correct
+ Puppet structure.
- if (arguments.size != 1) then
- raise(Puppet::ParseError, "parseyaml(): Wrong number of arguments "+
- "given #{arguments.size} for 1")
- end
+ @return
+ converted YAML into Puppet structure
+ > *Note:*
+ The optional second argument can be used to pass a default value that will
+ be returned if the parsing of YAML string have failed.
+ DOC
+ ) do |arguments|
+ raise ArgumentError, 'Wrong number of arguments. 1 or 2 arguments should be provided.' unless arguments.length >= 1
require 'yaml'
- YAML::load(arguments[0])
-
+ begin
+ YAML.load(arguments[0]) || arguments[1] # rubocop:disable Security/YAMLLoad : using YAML.safe_load causes the code to break
+ # in ruby 1.9.3 Psych::SyntaxError is a RuntimeException
+ # this still needs to catch that and work also on rubies that
+ # do not have Psych available.
+ rescue StandardError, Psych::SyntaxError => e # rubocop:disable Lint/ShadowedException : See above
+ raise e unless arguments[1]
+ arguments[1]
+ end
end
end