Puppet::Syntax

Syntax checks for Puppet manifests, templates, and Hiera YAML.

Version support

This should work on any version of:

• Puppet >= 2.7 that provides the validate face.
• Ruby >= 1.8 with erb from stdlib.

You can see the matrix of specific versions that we currently test against in the TravisCI config.

If you're using puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks and getting unexpected non-zero exit codes then you should upgrade to puppetlabs_spec_helper >= 0.8.0 which no longer has a conflicting rake task and now depends on this project.

Usage

Include the following in your Rakefile:

require 'puppet-syntax/tasks/puppet-syntax'

Test all manifests and templates relative to your Rakefile:

➜  puppet git:(master) bundle exec rake syntax
---> syntax:manifests
---> syntax:templates
---> syntax:hiera:yaml

A non-zero exit code and error message will be returned for any failures:

➜  puppet git:(master) bundle exec rake syntax
---> syntax:manifests
rake aborted!
Could not parse for environment production: Syntax error at end of file at demo.pp:2
Tasks: TOP => syntax => syntax:manifests
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Use in conjunction with lint and spec tests for Continuous Integration:

task :test => [
  :syntax,
  :lint,
  :spec,
]

Configuration

Paths can be excluded with:

PuppetSyntax.exclude_paths = ["vendor/**/*"]

When you are using a Puppet version greater then 3.2, you can select the future parse by specifying

PuppetSyntax.future_parser = true

If you are using some form of hiera data inside your module, you can configure where the syntax:hiera:yaml task looks for data with:

PuppetSyntax.hieradata_paths = ["**/data/**/*.yaml", "hieradata/**/*.yaml", "hiera*.yaml"]

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'puppet-syntax'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install puppet-syntax

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request