(#6928) Add a Parser face with Validate action

This will accept a number of manifests as arguments and check their syntax. If
no filenames are specified, it will check the default 'manifest' setting.

Paired-With: Jesse Wolfe

3 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/application/parser.rb b/lib/puppet/application/parser.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6ec3c185
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/application/parser.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+require 'puppet/application/face_base'
+require 'puppet/face'
+
+class Puppet::Application::Parser < Puppet::Application::FaceBase
+end
diff --git a/lib/puppet/face/parser.rb b/lib/puppet/face/parser.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c44810b99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/face/parser.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+require 'puppet/face'
+require 'puppet/parser'
+
+Puppet::Face.define(:parser, '0.0.1') do
+ action :validate do
+   when_invoked do |*args|
+     args.pop
+     files = args
+     files << Puppet[:manifest] if files.empty?
+     files.each do |file|
+       Puppet[:manifest] = file
+       Puppet::Node::Environment.new(Puppet[:environment]).known_resource_types.clear
+     end
+     nil
+   end
+ end
+end
diff --git a/lib/puppet/resource/type_collection.rb b/lib/puppet/resource/type_collection.rb
index 9fe7cdd06..89b0a16ed 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/resource/type_collection.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/resource/type_collection.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ class Puppet::Resource::TypeCollection
     @hostclasses.clear
     @definitions.clear
     @nodes.clear
+    @watched_files.clear
   end
 
   def initialize(env)