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-rw-r--r--unique.rb21
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/unique.rb b/unique.rb
index 617b451..ce7ea70 100644
--- a/unique.rb
+++ b/unique.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
# unique.rb
#
-# TODO(Krzysztof Wilczynski): Support for strings would be nice too ...
-
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:unique, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
EOS
@@ -12,13 +10,24 @@ module Puppet::Parser::Functions
raise(Puppet::ParseError, "unique(): Wrong number of arguments " +
"given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size < 1
- array = arguments[0]
+ value = arguments[0]
+ klass = value.class
- if not array.is_a?(Array)
- raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'unique(): Requires an array to work with')
+ if not [Array, String].include?(klass)
+ raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'unique(): Requires either an ' +
+ 'array or string to work with')
end
- result = array.uniq
+ result = value.clone
+
+ string_type = value.is_a?(String) ? true : false
+
+ # We turn any string value into an array to be able to shuffle ...
+ result = string_type ? result.split('') : result
+
+ result = result.uniq
+
+ result = string_type ? result.join : result
return result
end