Merge pull request #483 from nibalizer/load_metadata_json

Add load_metadata_json function

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/load_module_metadata.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/load_module_metadata.rb
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+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/load_module_metadata.rb
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+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:load_module_metadata, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOT
+  EOT
+  ) do |args|
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "load_module_metadata(): Wrong number of arguments, expects one") unless args.size == 1
+    mod = args[0]
+    module_path = function_get_module_path([mod])
+    metadata_json = File.join(module_path, 'metadata.json')
+
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "load_module_metadata(): No metadata.json file for module #{mod}") unless File.exists?(metadata_json)
+
+    metadata = PSON.load(File.read(metadata_json))
+
+    return metadata
+  end
+end