Note, this plugin will check for Puppet resource reference syntax which will no longer work with Puppet 4.x.

To use this plugin, add the following like to the Gemfile in your Puppet code base and run bundle install.

gem 'puppet-lint-resource_reference_syntax'

This plugin provides two new checks to puppet-lint.

--fix support: No

This check will raise an error for any resource reference that has a whitespace between the Type reference and the opening bracket.

e.g. the following code is NOT good for Puppet 4:

  require => File ['/etc/motd']

and will result in the following error:

ERROR: whitespce between reference type and title on line 4

--fix support: No

This check will raise an error for any resource reference that uses the title with capital letter without enclosed quotes.

e.g. the following code will not work on Puppet 4:

  require => Service[Apache],
  require => Service[Apache, Mysql],
  require => Service[apache]

and will result in the following error:

ERROR: resource reference with title with capital letter on line 4

The following references are good code for Puppet 4:

  require => Service['apache'],
  require => Service['apache', 'mysql'], 
  require => [ Service['apache'], Service['mysql'] ],