Fixing the state so it tries to call provider methods and only checks for errors, rather than checking with respond_to?

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1521 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/state.rb b/lib/puppet/type/state.rb
index c0330c13e..de0cfeb00 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/state.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/state.rb
@@ -268,11 +268,11 @@ class State < Puppet::Parameter
             # the blocks could return values.
             event = self.instance_eval(&ary[1])
         else
-            if provider.respond_to?(self.class.name.to_s + "=")
+            begin
                 provider.send(self.class.name.to_s + "=", self.should)
-            else
-                self.fail "%s is not a valid value for %s" %
-                    [value, self.class.name]
+            rescue NoMethodError
+                self.fail "The %s provider can not handle attribute %s" %
+                    [provider.class.name, self.class.name]
             end
         end