Type parameters differ from properties in that they don't directly relate to actual discoverable and updatable resources on the underlying system. Rather, they do one of the two following things:
- Allow you to specify additional informational context for interacting with properties and resources on the underlying system
- Provide a layer of abstraction allowing you to override the expected behavior on the underlying system
Let's add a source parameter to our new type using the newparam method:
Puppet::Type.newtype(:mynewtype) do ... newparam(:source) do end ... end
