Made lots of small changes, mostly to help usability but also fixed a couple of key bugs

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@841 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/parameter.rb b/lib/puppet/parameter.rb
index d6662ef1a..a4fe00b7b 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parameter.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parameter.rb
@@ -152,6 +152,31 @@ module Puppet
         #    end
         #end
 
+        def devfail(msg)
+            self.fail(Puppet::DevError, msg)
+        end
+
+        def fail(*args)
+            type = nil
+            if args[0].is_a?(Class)
+                type = args.shift
+            else
+                type = Puppet::Error
+            end
+
+            error = type.new(args.join(" "))
+
+            if defined? @parent and @parent and @parent.line
+                error.line = @parent.line
+            end
+
+            if defined? @parent and @parent and @parent.file
+                error.file = @parent.file
+            end
+
+            raise error
+        end
+
         # This should only be called for parameters, but go ahead and make
         # it possible to call for states, too.
         def value