validate_string(true)
validate_string([ 'some', 'array' ])
-
+
Note: validate_string(undef) will not fail in this version of the
functions API (incl. current and future parser). Instead, use:
-
+
if $var == undef {
fail('...')
}
-
+
ENDHEREDOC
+ function_deprecation([:validate_string, 'This method is deprecated, please use the stdlib validate_legacy function, with Stdlib::Compat::String. There is further documentation for validate_legacy function in the README.'])
+
unless args.length > 0 then
raise Puppet::ParseError, ("validate_string(): wrong number of arguments (#{args.length}; must be > 0)")
end
args.each do |arg|
- unless arg.is_a?(String)
+ # when called through the v4 API shim, undef gets translated to nil
+ unless arg.is_a?(String) || arg.nil?
raise Puppet::ParseError, ("#{arg.inspect} is not a string. It looks to be a #{arg.class}")
end
end