[question] Are you open to using inifile instead of toml-rb?

[genebean]

The telefraf config can easily be managed using inifile resources instead of requiring the toml-rb gem... are you open to a PR for that? I just wanted to check prior to doing the work.

[bastelfreak]

Hi. Yes, I think inifile is a better approach for this :)

[SimonHoenscheid]

@genebean This sounds interesting, can you give a short hint, how you wabnt to accomplish this using the inifile ressource?

[dhoppe]

I would also like to store the variables in data/*.yaml and use the function create_ini_settings().

But the file telegraf.conf is not a real .ini file and the parameters indent_width, section_prefix and section_suffix can not work miracles either.

For example, the input plugin for Jolokia has an additional level.

I am not sure how this could work.

[genebean]

After looking at this more and taking into account all the different things that can be set I have to admit that I actually don't think my initial idea will work. Each of the settings can indeed be created via inifile but making something that works for all the nested options doesn't seem doable in the time I can commit. Sorry :(

[genebean]

Ideally we need a standalone toml type and provider for Puppet

[dhoppe]

I agree with that. Some plugins use "Array of Tables" and this is really hard to realize with inifile.