puppet-lint-empty_lines_around_body-check

A puppet-lint plugin to check for empty lines around bodies of

• classes and defined types
• conditional blocks (if/elsif/else, unless, case, selectors, ...)

$ gem install puppet-lint-empty_lines_around_body-check

There is an empty line either after the opening curly brace that starts a block or before the closing curly brace that ends a block.

if $foo == 'bar' {

  ## some stuff

}

class foo::config {

  ## some stuff

}

case $facts['os']['name'] {

  'Solaris': { include role::solaris }
  default:   { include role::generic }

}

The indentation suffices to signal the start end end of a block, so blocks shouldn't have leading or trailing empty lines.

if $foo == 'bar' {
  ## some stuff
}

class foo::config {
  ## some stuff
}

case $facts['os']['name'] {
  'Solaris': { include role::solaris }
  default:   { include role::generic }
}

To disable this check, you can add `--no-empty_lines_around_block-check' to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-empty_lines_around_block-check /path/to/file.pp

This plugin for puppet-lint has been written owing to the very nice tutorial for writing puppet-lint checks.