module Puppet::Parser::Functions newfunction(:validate_slength, :doc => <<-'ENDHEREDOC') do |args| Validate that the first argument is a string (or an array of strings), and less/equal to than the length of the second argument. An optional third parameter can be given the minimum length. It fails if the first argument is not a string or array of strings, and if arg 2 and arg 3 are not convertable to a number. The following values will pass: validate_slength("discombobulate",17) validate_slength(["discombobulate","moo"],17) validate_slength(["discombobulate","moo"],17,3) The following valueis will not: validate_slength("discombobulate",1) validate_slength(["discombobulate","thermometer"],5) validate_slength(["discombobulate","moo"],17,10) ENDHEREDOC function_deprecation([:puppet_3_type_check, 'This method is deprecated, please use the stdlib validate_legacy function, with Stdlib::Compat::String[x]. There is further documentation for validate_legacy function in the README.']) raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Wrong number of arguments (#{args.length}; must be 2 or 3)" unless args.length == 2 or args.length == 3 input, max_length, min_length = *args begin max_length = Integer(max_length) raise ArgumentError if max_length <= 0 rescue ArgumentError, TypeError raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected second argument to be a positive Numeric, got #{max_length}:#{max_length.class}" end if min_length begin min_length = Integer(min_length) raise ArgumentError if min_length < 0 rescue ArgumentError, TypeError raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected third argument to be unset or a positive Numeric, got #{min_length}:#{min_length.class}" end else min_length = 0 end raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected second argument to be equal to or larger than third argument" unless max_length >= min_length validator = lambda do |str| unless str.length <= max_length and str.length >= min_length raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected length of #{input.inspect} to be between #{min_length} and #{max_length}, was #{input.length}" end end case input when String validator.call(input) when Array input.each_with_index do |arg, pos| if arg.is_a? String validator.call(arg) else raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected element at array position #{pos} to be a String, got #{arg.class}" end end else raise Puppet::ParseError, "validate_slength(): Expected first argument to be a String or Array, got #{input.class}" end end end