# This is just syntactic sugar for a collection, although it will generally # be a good bit faster. Puppet::Parser::Functions::newfunction(:realize, :arity => -2, :doc => "Make a virtual object real. This is useful when you want to know the name of the virtual object and don't want to bother with a full collection. It is slightly faster than a collection, and, of course, is a bit shorter. You must pass the object using a reference; e.g.: `realize User[luke]`." ) do |vals| vals = [vals] unless vals.is_a?(Array) if Puppet.future_parser? coll = Puppet::Pops::Evaluator::Collectors::FixedSetCollector.new(self, vals.flatten) else coll = Puppet::Parser::Collector.new(self, :nomatter, nil, nil, :virtual) coll.resources = vals.flatten end compiler.add_collection(coll) end