adding more validation methods

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/library/trunk@403 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/type.rb b/lib/puppet/type.rb
index dfd47f855..fd889ddd3 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type.rb
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class Type < Puppet::Element
         if hash.include?(key)
             hash[key]
         else
-            raise "Object type %s not found" % key
+            raise TypeError.new("Object type %s not found" % key)
         end
     }
 
@@ -368,6 +368,19 @@ class Type < Puppet::Element
     #---------------------------------------------------------------
 
     #---------------------------------------------------------------
+    def self.validarg?(name)
+        if name.is_a?(String)
+            name = name.intern
+        end
+        if self.validstate?(name) or self.validparameter?(name) or self.metaparam?(name)
+            return true
+        else
+            return false
+        end
+    end
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------
     # abstract accessing parameters and states, and normalize
     # access to always be symbols, not strings
     # XXX this returns a _value_, not an object