Adding cached attribute support to resources.

The Catalog is the expirer, which means that a resource
with no catalog will not cache data.

Also switching files to use a cached attribute for its stat.

And modifying catalogs to expire data at the end of every
transaction.

Signed-off-by: Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/node/catalog.rb b/lib/puppet/node/catalog.rb
index 8862d0cc9..a438a4764 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/node/catalog.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/node/catalog.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ require 'puppet/indirector'
 require 'puppet/simple_graph'
 require 'puppet/transaction'
 
+require 'puppet/util/cacher'
+
 require 'puppet/util/tagging'
 
 # This class models a node catalog.  It is the thing
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ class Puppet::Node::Catalog < Puppet::SimpleGraph
     indirects :catalog, :terminus_class => :compiler
 
     include Puppet::Util::Tagging
+    include Puppet::Util::Cacher::Expirer
 
     # The host name this is a catalog for.
     attr_accessor :name
@@ -394,6 +397,9 @@ class Puppet::Node::Catalog < Puppet::SimpleGraph
             @transient_resources.clear
             @relationship_graph = nil
         end
+
+        # Expire any cached data the resources are keeping.
+        expire()
     end
 
     # Verify that the given resource isn't defined elsewhere.
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type.rb b/lib/puppet/type.rb
index da274df88..1854c8801 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type.rb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ require 'puppet/util/errors'
 require 'puppet/util/log_paths'
 require 'puppet/util/logging'
 require 'puppet/resource_reference'
+require 'puppet/util/cacher'
 
 # see the bottom of the file for the rest of the inclusions
 
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ class Type
     include Puppet::Util::Errors
     include Puppet::Util::LogPaths
     include Puppet::Util::Logging
+    include Puppet::Util::Cacher
 
     ###############################
     # Code related to resource type attributes.
@@ -551,6 +553,12 @@ class Type
         }
     end
 
+    # Let the catalog determine whether a given cached value is
+    # still valid or has expired.
+    def expirer
+        catalog
+    end
+
     # retrieve the 'should' value for a specified property
     def should(name)
         name = attr_alias(name)
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
index ccef61253..6eb7f62f5 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ module Puppet
         # use either 'stat' or 'lstat', and we expect the properties to use the
         # resulting stat object accordingly (mostly by testing the 'ftype'
         # value).
-        def stat(refresh = false)
+        cached_attr(:stat) do
             method = :stat
 
             # Files are the only types that support links
@@ -743,18 +743,14 @@ module Puppet
             end
             path = self[:path]
 
-            if @stat.nil? or refresh == true
-                begin
-                    @stat = File.send(method, self[:path])
-                rescue Errno::ENOENT => error
-                    return nil
-                rescue Errno::EACCES => error
-                    warning "Could not stat; permission denied"
-                    return nil
-                end
+            begin
+                File.send(method, self[:path])
+            rescue Errno::ENOENT => error
+                return nil
+            rescue Errno::EACCES => error
+                warning "Could not stat; permission denied"
+                return nil
             end
-
-            return @stat
         end
 
         # We have to hack this just a little bit, because otherwise we'll get