type = Puppet::Util::Reference.newreference :type, :doc => "All Puppet resource types and all their details" do types = {} Puppet::Type.loadall Puppet::Type.eachtype { |type| next if type.name == :puppet next if type.name == :component types[type.name] = type } str = %{ Resource Types -------------- - The *namevar* is the parameter used to uniquely identify a type instance. This is the parameter that gets assigned when a string is provided before the colon in a type declaration. In general, only developers will need to worry about which parameter is the ``namevar``. In the following code:: file { "/etc/passwd": owner => root, group => root, mode => 644 } ``/etc/passwd`` is considered the title of the file object (used for things like dependency handling), and because ``path`` is the namevar for ``file``, that string is assigned to the ``path`` parameter. - *Parameters* determine the specific configuration of the instance. They either directly modify the system (internally, these are called properties) or they affect how the instance behaves (e.g., adding a search path for ``exec`` instances or determining recursion on ``file`` instances). - *Providers* provide low-level functionality for a given resource type. This is usually in the form of calling out to external commands. When required binaries are specified for providers, fully qualifed paths indicate that the binary must exist at that specific path and unqualified binaries indicate that Puppet will search for the binary using the shell path. - *Features* are abilities that some providers might not support. You can use the list of supported features to determine how a given provider can be used. Resource types define features they can use, and providers can be tested to see which features they provide. } types.sort { |a,b| a.to_s <=> b.to_s }.each { |name,type| str += " ---------------- " str += h(name, 3) str += scrub(type.doc) + "\n\n" # Handle the feature docs. if featuredocs = type.featuredocs str += h("Features", 4) str += featuredocs end docs = {} type.validproperties.sort { |a,b| a.to_s <=> b.to_s }.reject { |sname| property = type.propertybyname(sname) property.nodoc }.each { |sname| property = type.propertybyname(sname) unless property raise "Could not retrieve property %s on type %s" % [sname, type.name] end doc = nil unless doc = property.doc $stderr.puts "No docs for %s[%s]" % [type, sname] next end doc = doc.dup tmp = doc tmp = scrub(tmp) docs[sname] = tmp } str += h("Parameters", 4) + "\n" type.parameters.sort { |a,b| a.to_s <=> b.to_s }.each { |name,param| #docs[name] = indent(scrub(type.paramdoc(name)), $tab) docs[name] = scrub(type.paramdoc(name)) } docs.sort { |a, b| a[0].to_s <=> b[0].to_s }.each { |name, doc| namevar = type.namevar == name and name != :name str += paramwrap(name, doc, :namevar => namevar) } str += "\n" } str end