# Test whether a given class or definition is defined Puppet::Parser::Functions::newfunction(:defined, :type => :rvalue, :arity => -2, :doc => "Determine whether a given class or resource type is defined. This function can also determine whether a specific resource has been declared, or whether a variable has been assigned a value (including undef...as opposed to never having been assigned anything). Returns true or false. Accepts class names, type names, resource references, and variable reference strings of the form '$name'. When more than one argument is supplied, defined() returns true if any are defined. The `defined` function checks both native and defined types, including types provided as plugins via modules. Types and classes are both checked using their names: defined(\"file\") defined(\"customtype\") defined(\"foo\") defined(\"foo::bar\") defined(\'$name\') Resource declarations are checked using resource references, e.g. `defined( File['/tmp/myfile'] )`. Checking whether a given resource has been declared is, unfortunately, dependent on the parse order of the configuration, and the following code will not work: if defined(File['/tmp/foo']) { notify { \"This configuration includes the /tmp/foo file.\":} } file { \"/tmp/foo\": ensure => present, } However, this order requirement refers to parse order only, and ordering of resources in the configuration graph (e.g. with `before` or `require`) does not affect the behavior of `defined`. If the future parser is in effect, you may also search using types: defined(Resource[\'file\',\'/some/file\']) defined(File[\'/some/file\']) defined(Class[\'foo\']) - Since 2.7.0 - Since 3.6.0 variable reference and future parser types") do |vals| vals = [vals] unless vals.is_a?(Array) vals.any? do |val| case val when String if m = /^\$(.+)$/.match(val) exist?(m[1]) else find_resource_type(val) or find_definition(val) or find_hostclass(val) end when Puppet::Resource compiler.findresource(val.type, val.title) else if Puppet.future_parser? case val when Puppet::Pops::Types::PResourceType raise ArgumentError, "The given resource type is a reference to all kind of types" if val.type_name.nil? if val.title.nil? find_builtin_resource_type(val.type_name) || find_definition(val.type_name) else compiler.findresource(val.type_name, val.title) end when Puppet::Pops::Types::PHostClassType raise ArgumentError, "The given class type is a reference to all classes" if val.class_name.nil? find_hostclass(val.class_name) end else raise ArgumentError, "Invalid argument of type '#{val.class}' to 'defined'" end end end end