Resource Type

Deprecation note: This endpoint was deprecated in Puppet 4.5.0 in favor of the environment_classes endpoint provided by Puppet Server 2.3.0 and later.

The resource_type and resource_types endpoints return information about the following kinds of objects available to the puppet master:

• Classes (class myclass { ... })
• Defined types (define mytype ($parameter) { ... })
• Node definitions (node 'web01.example.com' { ... })

For an object to be available to the puppet master, it must be present in the site manifest (configured by the manifest setting) or in a module located in the modulepath (configured by the modulepath setting; classes and defined types only).

Note that this endpoint does not return information about native resource types written in Ruby.

See the end of this page for the source manifest used to generate all example responses.

Find

Get info about a specific class, defined type, or node, by name. Returns a single resource_type response object (see “Schema” below).

GET /puppet/v3/resource_type/:class_type_or_node_name?environment=:environment

Note: Although no two classes or defined types may have the same name, it’s possible for a node definition to have the same name as a class or defined type. If this happens, the class or defined type will be returned instead of the node definition. The order in which kinds of objects are searched is classes, then defined types, then node definitions.

Supported HTTP Methods

GET

Supported Formats

PSON

Parameters

None

Responses

Resource Type Found

GET /puppet/v3/resource_type/athing?environment=env

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Type: text/pson

{
  "line": 7,
  "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
  "name":"athing",
  "kind":"class"
}

Resource Type Not Found

GET /puppet/v3/resource_type/resource_type_does_not_exist?environment=env

HTTP 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/plain

Not Found: Could not find resource_type resource_type_does_not_exist

No Resource Type Name Given

GET /puppet/v3/resource_type?environment=env

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/plain

No request key specified in /env/resource_type/

Search

List all resource types matching a regular expression. Returns an array of resource_type response objects (see “Schema” below).

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/:search_string?environment=:environment

The search_string is required. It must be either a Ruby regular expression or the string * (which will match all resource types). Surrounding slashes are stripped. Note that if you want to use the ? character in a regular expression, it must be escaped as %3F.

Supported HTTP Methods

GET

Supported Formats

Accept: pson, text/pson

Parameters

• kind: Optional. Filter the returned resource types by the kind field. Valid values are class, node, and defined_type.

Responses

Search With Results

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/*?environment=env

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Type: text/pson

[
  {
    "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
    "kind": "class",
    "line": 7,
    "name": "athing"
  },
  {
    "doc": "An example class\n",
    "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
    "kind": "class",
    "line": 11,
    "name": "bthing",
    "parent": "athing"
  },
  {
    "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
    "kind": "defined_type",
    "line": 1,
    "name": "hello",
    "parameters": {
      "a": "{key2 => \"val2\", key => \"val\"}",
      "message": "$title"
    }
  },
  {
    "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
    "kind": "node",
    "line": 14,
    "name": "web01.example.com"
  },
  {
    "file": "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
    "kind": "node",
    "line": 17,
    "name": "default"
  }
]

Search Not Found

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/pattern.that.finds.no.resources?environment=env

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found: Could not find instances in resource_type with 'pattern.that.finds.no.resources'
Content-Type: text/plain

Not Found: Could not find instances in resource_type with 'pattern.that.finds.no.resources'

No Search Term Given

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types?environment=env

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/plain

No request key specified in /puppet/v3/resource_types

Search Term Is an Invalid Regular Expression

Searching on [- for instance.

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/%5b-?environment=env

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/plain

Invalid regex '[-': premature end of char-class: /[-/

Examples

List all classes:

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/*?environment=:environment&kind=class

List matching a regular expression:

GET /puppet/v3/resource_types/foo.*bar?environment=:environment

Schema

A resource_type response body conforms to the resource_type schema.

Source

Example site.pp used to generate all the responses in this file:

define hello ($message = $title, $a = { key => 'val', key2 => 'val2' }) {
  notify {$message: }
}

hello { "there": }

class athing {
}

# An example class
class bthing inherits athing {
}

node 'web01.example.com' {}
node default {}