A “service” user or group that picks up values from settings when the referenced user or group is safe to use (it exists or will be created), and uses the given fallback value when not safe.
@api private
@param name [Symbol] the name of the setting to use as the service value @param fallback [String, nil] the value to use when the service value cannot be used @param settings [Puppet::Settings] the puppet settings object @param available_method [Symbol] the name of the method to call on
settings to determine if the value in settings is available on the system
# File lib/puppet/settings/file_setting.rb, line 37 def initialize(name, fallback, settings, available_method) @settings = settings @available_method = available_method @name = name @fallback = fallback end
# File lib/puppet/settings/file_setting.rb, line 44 def value if safe_to_use_settings_value? @settings[@name] else @fallback end end