Changing name of collect_indices.rb to values_at.rb in order to be

reasemble Ruby's Array#values_at more.  Added support for ranges
with hyphen, two and three dots notation.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/values_at.rb b/values_at.rb
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+#
+# values_at.rb
+#
+
+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:values_at, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
+    EOS
+  ) do |arguments|
+
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "values_at(): Wrong number of " +
+      "arguments given (#{arguments.size} for 2)") if arguments.size < 2
+
+    array = arguments.shift
+
+    if not array.is_a?(Array)
+      raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): Requires an array ' +
+        'to work with')
+    end
+
+    indices = *arguments # Get them all ... Pokemon ...
+
+    if not indices or indices.empty?
+      raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): You must provide ' +
+        'at least one positive index to collect')
+    end
+
+    result       = []
+    indices_list = []
+
+    indices.each do |i|
+      if m = i.match(/^(\d+)(\.\.\.?|\-)(\d+)$/)
+        start = m[1].to_i
+        stop  = m[3].to_i
+
+        type = m[2]
+
+        if start > stop
+          raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): Stop index in ' +
+            'given indices range is smaller than the start index')
+        elsif stop > array.size - 1 # First element is at index 0 is it not?
+          raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): Stop index in ' +
+            'given indices range exceeds array size')
+        end
+
+        range = case type
+          when /^(\.\.|\-)$/ then (start .. stop)
+          when /^(\.\.\.)$/  then (start ... stop) # Exclusive of last element ...
+        end
+
+        range.each { |i| indices_list << i.to_i }
+      else
+        # Only positive numbers allowed in this case ...
+        if not i.match(/^\d+$/)
+          raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): Unknown format ' +
+            'of given index')
+        end
+
+        # In Puppet numbers are often string-encoded ...
+        i = i.to_i
+
+        if i > array.size - 1 # Same story.  First element is at index 0 ...
+          raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'values_at(): Given index ' +
+            'exceeds array size')
+        end
+
+        indices_list << i
+      end
+    end
+
+    # We remove nil values as they make no sense in Puppet DSL ...
+    result = indices_list.collect { |i| array[i] }.compact
+
+    return result
+  end
+end
+
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :