puppetlabs/puppet — pull request #542 by jeffmccune (2012-02-29 20:20:10+00:00)
Title: (#12357) Fix cron type default name error on windows

On windows I ran into this error with the cron type:

err: Failed to apply catalog: undefined method 'name' for nil:NilClass

Without this patch, the problem appears to be that the cron type name
parameter defaults to the following block:

defaultto { Etc.getpwuid(Process.uid).name || "root" }

On windows `Etc.getpwuid(Process.uid)` returns `nil`. This patch fixes
the problem by binding the object returned by
`Etc.getpwuid(Process.uid)` to a variable. We then check if the
variable responds to the `name` method, and only send a message to name
if so. Otherwise, we return "root"

The included spec test will fail if there is a regression in the desired
behavior. The expected failure looks like:

Failures:

1) Puppet::Type::Cron should default to user => root if Etc.getpwuid(Process.uid) returns nil (#12357)
Failure/Error: entry = described_class.new(:name => "test_entry", :ensure => :present)
NoMethodError:
undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass
# ./lib/puppet/type/cron.rb:359:in `default'
# ./lib/puppet/type.rb:540:in `set_default'
# ./lib/puppet/type.rb:1834:in `set_parameters'
# ./lib/puppet/type.rb:1833:in `each'
# ./lib/puppet/type.rb:1833:in `set_parameters'
# ./lib/puppet/type.rb:1797:in `initialize'
# ./spec/unit/type/cron_spec.rb:474:in `new'
# ./spec/unit/type/cron_spec.rb:474