[PUP-6608] variable scoping change in Puppet 4.6.0 - Puppet Jira Server

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A regression in evaluation of resource like class inclusion caused evaluation of the class to be lazy as opposed to the correct immediate evaluation. This in turn led to problems with missing variables which in turn could lead to other problems. The order of evaluation is now restored.

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A regression in evaluation of resource like class inclusion caused evaluation of the class to be lazy as opposed to the correct immediate evaluation. This in turn led to problems with missing variables which in turn could lead to other problems. The order of evaluation is now restored.

Variables defined in a class are not in scope after resource-like declaration of that class:

$ cat test.pp

class a($myvar = 'hello') {}

class { 'a': myvar => 'goodbye' }

notify { $a::myvar: }

$ puppet --version

4.5.3

$ puppet apply --strict_variables test.pp

Notice: Compiled catalog for kvm-01.node.vagrant.consul in environment production in 0.03 seconds

Notice: goodbye

Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[goodbye]/message: defined 'message' as 'goodbye'

Notice: Applied catalog in 0.02 seconds

$ puppet --version

4.6.0

$ puppet apply --strict_variables test.pp

Error: Evaluation Error: Unknown variable: 'a::myvar'. at /home/vagrant/test.pp:3:10 on node kvm-01.node.vagrant.consul

Without strict_variables it could be very dangerous. Note that if you add an include, it works:

$ cat test.pp

class a($myvar = 'hello') {}

class { 'a': myvar => 'goodbye' }

include a

notify { $a::myvar: }

$ puppet --version

4.6.0

$ puppet apply --strict_variables test.pp

Notice: Compiled catalog for kvm-01.node.vagrant.consul in environment production in 0.09 seconds

Notice: goodbye

Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[goodbye]/message: defined 'message' as 'goodbye'

Notice: Applied catalog in 0.02 seconds

is duplicated by

MODULES-3750 puppetlabs-apache module fails with puppet-agent 1.6.0 on Puppetmaster

links to

PR-5198