Getting error while running puppet archive.

[atmesh]

I am using puppet-archive to download my file from a repository.

archive { "/usrdata/archive/${tomcat::jreversion}":
  ensure       => present,
  extract      => true,
  extract_path => '/usrdata/apps/java/',
  source       => $tomcat::params::jredownloadpath,
  creates      => "/usrdata/apps/java/${tomcat::jdkversion}",
}

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 3.8.7
• Ruby: 2.0.0
• Module version: 1.1.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

I am using puppet-archive to download my file from a repository.

archive { "/usrdata/archive/${tomcat::jreversion}":
  ensure       => present,
  extract      => true,
  extract_path => '/usrdata/apps/java/',
  source       => $tomcat::params::jredownloadpath,
  creates      => "/usrdata/apps/java/${tomcat::jdkversion}",
}

What are you seeing

But I get the following error on puppet run -:

Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: no implicit conversion of nil into String at 26:/etc/puppet/modules/tomcat/manifests/javaora.pp
Error:Could not set 'present' on ensure: no implicit conversion of nil into String at 26:/etc/puppet/modules/tomcat/manifests/javaora.pp Wrapped exception: no implicit conversion of nil into String Error: /Stage[main]/Tomcat::Javaora/Archive[/usrdata/archive/jre-7]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: no implicit conversion of nil into String at 26:/etc/puppet/modules/tomcat/manifests/javaora.pp

What behaviour did you expect instead

I expected it to download the archived file from the source and extract at desired location

[nanliu]

Can you run this with --trace and provide line 26 of javaora.pp (or highlight the line in the manifest you provided)

[atmesh]

@nanliu the closing curly brace just below creates is line:26 of my manifest.

[atmesh]

can you explain the possible reason why I am experiencing this behaviour? Just hint on what could be wrong!

[nanliu]

It's an issue converting a string, most likely source parameter is nil, or the conversion is failing to process part of that string. You can add a notify resource, and expand the variable:

notify { $tomcat::params::jredownloadpath: }

Can't provide more detail without the --trace to pinpoint the ruby source code line number and a stack trace. It would be much more helpful if you can provide an example resource without any puppet parameters (the direct values for the resource).

[nanliu]

So I did a local test and your source parameter is undefined. I'll write a patch to make sure we raise a more meaningful error.

[atmesh]

Seems like it is not able to find the path! Closing the issue.