# Function to print deprecation warnings, Logs a warning once for a given key. The uniqueness key - can appear once. The msg is the message text including any positional information that is formatted by the user/caller of the method It is affected by the puppet setting 'strict', which can be set to :error (outputs as an error message), :off (no message / error is displayed) and :warning (default, outputs a warning) *Type*: String, String. # Puppet::Functions.create_function(:deprecation) do dispatch :deprecation do param 'String', :key param 'String', :message end def deprecation(key, message) if defined? Puppet::Pops::PuppetStack.stacktrace() stacktrace = Puppet::Pops::PuppetStack.stacktrace() file = stacktrace[0] line = stacktrace[1] message = "#{message} at #{file}:#{line}" end # depending on configuration setting of strict case Puppet.settings[:strict] when :off # do nothing when :error fail("deprecation. #{key}. #{message}") else unless ENV['STDLIB_LOG_DEPRECATIONS'] == 'false' Puppet.deprecation_warning(message, key) end end end end