Hi Guys
Want to be able to check if a disk is attached (fwiw it's normally on real hw, not VM in this case)
I always get
Evaluation Error: Operator '[]' is not applicable to an Undef Value
When using eg
if ( defined( $facts['disks']['sdb']['model'] ) )
or similar.
does anyone now how to go about this?
Thx
Chris
Hi cm01,
As you can see in the output below, the error is most probably due to the third element in the facts (model). it might be better for you to run the condition on $facts['disks']['sdb'] instead of $facts['disks']['sdb']['model'] (especially as you seem to try to check that sdb is attached).
[stivesso@mytestlab ~]$ facter disks
{
xvda => {
size => "8.00 GiB",
size_bytes => 8589934592
}
}
[stivesso@mytestlab ~]$ puppet apply -e 'if $facts['disks'] != undef {notice "not undef"} else {notice "undef"}'
Notice: Scope(Class[main]): not undef
Notice: Compiled catalog for mytestlab.athome.internal in environment production in 0.02 seconds
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds
[stivesso@mytestlab ~]$ puppet apply -e 'if $facts['disks']['sdb'] != undef {notice "not undef"} else {notice "undef"}'
Notice: Scope(Class[main]): undef
Notice: Compiled catalog for mytestlab.athome.internal in environment production in 0.02 seconds
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds
[stivesso@mytestlab ~]$ puppet apply -e 'if $facts['disks']['sdb']['model'] != undef {notice "not undef"} else {notice "undef"}'
Error: Evaluation Error: Operator '[]' is not applicable to an Undef Value. at line 1:4 on node mytestlab.athome.internal
Daryl,
Tried that but got
" Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, 'defined' parameter 'vals' expects a value of type String or Type, got Undef"
Apparently define() only copes with a proper var :(
Look like I'll have to go with
if ( $facts.dig('disks','sda','model') != undef )
{
notify{"sda defined": }
}
else
{
notify{"sda NOT defined": }
}
which is ugly imho ...
I am genuinely surprised that defined() doesn't handle 'undef' value - after all that's what we are testing for ....
Chris
I believe the functionality you are looking for is called 'dig'... see https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.3/fu...
dig Returns a value for a sequence of given keys/indexes into a structure, such as an array or hash. This function is used to “dig into” a complex data structure by using a sequence of keys / indexes to access a value from which the next key/index is accessed recursively.
The first encountered undef value or key stops the “dig” and undef is returned.
An error is raised if an attempt is made to “dig” into something other than an undef (which immediately returns undef), an Array or a Hash.
Example
$data = {a => { b => [{x => 10, y => 20}, {x => 100, y => 200}]}}
notice $data.dig('a', 'b', 1, 'x')
would put the value 100
in your case, you could check
if ( defined( $facts.dig('disks','sdb','model') ) )
Asked: 2017-12-17 18:43:44 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 19 '17