Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Overview

🍵 Types: Abstracted & Extracted

This module provides a set of Puppet 4.4+ compatible datatypes for use of validation in defined types and class declarations.

Module Description

The basic idea behind this module is to retire puppetlabs-stdlib's validate_XYZ() functions. Unlike validate_(), these datatypes can be verified by the parser, instead of being validated during compilation.

Installing this module will make it so that puppet auto-loads all types defined in types/

Reference

public types

• Absolutepath: matches http/https URLs
• HTTPUrl: matches http/https URLs
• HTTPSUrl: matches https URLs
• Port: all valid TCP/UDP ports
• Privilegedport: ports which need rootly power to bind to
• Unprivilegedport: ports which do not need rootly power
• IPv4: Matches valid IPv4 address
• IPv6: Matches valid IPv6 address
• ipaddress: Matches valid IPv4 or IPv6 address
• IPv4_cird: Matches valid IPv4 address in CIDR notation
• IPv6_cidr: Matches valid IPv6 address in CIDR notation
• Puppetsource: matches values that can be used for a file type source parameter
• Puppetcontent: matches values that can be used for a file type content parameter
• Base64: matches base64 strings
• Base32: matches base64 strings

private types

• fileuri: Matches file:/// uris, used by Puppetsource
• puppeturi: Matches puppet:/// uris, used by Puppetsource

Limitations

This module is compatible with any platform puppet 4.4+ is compatible with.

Development

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for how this module is developed, and how you can help.