README.md

puppet-lint-unquoted_string-check

A puppet-lint plugin to check that selectors and case statements cases are quoted.

Installing

From the command line

$ gem install puppet-lint-unquoted_string-check

In a Gemfile

gem 'puppet-lint-unquoted_string-check', :require => false

Checks

Unquoted string in case

Unquoted strings in case statements are not valid with the future parser.

What you have done

case $::osfamily {
  Debian: { }
  RedHat: { }
  default: { }
}

What you should have done

case $::osfamily {
  'Debian': { }
  'RedHat': { }
  default: { }
}

Disabling the check

To disable this check, you can add --no-unquoted_string_in_case-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-unquoted_string_in_case-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_unquoted_string_in_case')

Unquoted string in selector

Unquoted strings in selector statements are not valid with the future parser.

What you have done

$foo = $::osfamily ? {
  Debian => 'bar',
  RedHat => 'baz',
  default => 'qux',
}

What you should have done

$foo = $::osfamily ? {
  'Debian' => 'bar',
  'RedHat' => 'baz',
  default  => 'qux',
}

Disabling the check

To disable this check, you can add --no-unquoted_string_in_selector-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-unquoted_string_in_selector-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_unquoted_string_in_selector')

Transfer Notice

This plugin was originally authored by Camptocamp. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Community take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of Camptocamp.

Previously: https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-lint-unquoted_string-check

License

This gem is licensed under the Apache-2 license.

Release information

To make a new release, please do:

• update the version in the gemspec file
• Install gems with bundle install --with release --path .vendor
• generate the changelog with bundle exec rake changelog
• Check if the new version matches the closed issues/PRs in the changelog
• Create a PR with it
• After it got merged, push a tag. GitHub actions will do the actual release to rubygems and GitHub Packages