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