NAME

       puppet-parser - Interact directly with the parser.

SYNOPSIS

       puppet parser action

OPTIONS

       Note  that  any setting that´s valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument, although it
       may or may not be relevant to the present action. For example, server and run_mode are valid settings, so
       you can specify --server <servername>, or --run_mode <runmode> as an argument.

       See             the             configuration             file              documentation              at
       https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/configuration.html  for  the  full list of acceptable
       parameters. A commented list of all configuration options can also be generated by  running  puppet  with
       --genconfig.

       --render-as FORMAT
              The  format  in  which  to  render output. The most common formats are json, s (string), yaml, and
              console, but other options such as dot are sometimes available.

       --verbose
              Whether to log verbosely.

       --debug
              Whether to log debug information.

ACTIONS

       dump - Outputs a dump of the internal parse tree for debugging
              SYNOPSIS

              puppet parser dump [--e source] [--[no-]validate] -e source| [manifest ...]

              DESCRIPTION

              This action parses and validates the Puppet DSL syntax without compiling a catalog or syncing  any
              resources.

              The  command  accepts  one  or  more manifests (.pp) files, or an -e followed by the puppet source
              text. If no arguments are given, the stdin is read (unless it is attached to a terminal)

              The output format of the dumped tree is intended for debugging purposes and is  not  API,  it  may
              change from time to time.

              OPTIONS --e <source> - dump one source expression given on the command line.

              --[no-]validate  - Whether or not to validate the parsed result, if no-validate only syntax errors
              are reported

              RETURNS

              A dump of the resulting AST model unless there are syntax or validation errors.

       validate - Validate the syntax of one or more Puppet manifests.
              SYNOPSIS

              puppet parser validate [manifest] [manifest ...]

              DESCRIPTION

              This action validates Puppet DSL syntax without compiling a catalog or syncing any  resources.  If
              no manifest files are provided, it will validate the default site manifest.

              When  validating  multiple  issues  per  file  are  reported  up to the settings of max_error, and
              max_warnings. The processing stops after having reported issues for  the  first  encountered  file
              with errors.

              RETURNS

              Nothing, or the first syntax error encountered.

EXAMPLES

       validate

       Validate the default site manifest at /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp:

       $ puppet parser validate

       Validate two arbitrary manifest files:

       $ puppet parser validate init.pp vhost.pp

       Validate from STDIN:

       $ cat init.pp | puppet parser validate

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2014 by Puppet Inc. Apache 2 license; see COPYING

Puppet Labs, LLC                                   April 2018                                   PUPPET-PARSER(8)