BinaryFromFile opens file appointed by the given path for reading and returns its contents as a Binary.

BinaryFromFile2 opens file appointed by the given path for reading and returns its contents as a Binary together with a boolean indicating if the file was found or not.

CanCoerce responds true iv the given value can be coerced into an instance of the given type.

CoerceTo will deep coerce the given value into an instance of the given type t.

MakeObjectType creates a new object type and optionally registers it as a resolvable to be picked up for resolution on the next call to px.ResolveResolvables if the given register flag is true.

NewCollector returns a new Collector instance.

NewGoRuntimeType creates a Go runtime by extracting the element type of the given value.

NewTypeAliasType creates a new TypeAliasType from a name and a typeExpression which must either be a *DeferredType, a parser.Expression, or nil.

NormalizeType ensures that pointers to interface is converted to interface and that struct is converted to pointer to struct.

Parse calls ParseFile with the string "<pcore type expression>" as the fileName.

ParseFile parses the given content into a px.Value.

ParseURI parses a string into a uri.URL and panics with an issue code if the parse fails.

PuppetFprintf is like fmt.Fprintf but using named arguments accessed with %{key} formatting instructions and using Puppet StringFormatter for evaluating formatting specifications.

PuppetSprintf is like fmt.Fprintf but using named arguments accessed with %{key} formatting instructions and using Puppet StringFormatter for evaluating formatting specifications.

ResolveDeferred will resolve all occurrences of a DeferredValue in its given argument.

ValueSlice convert a slice of values that implement the pcore.Value interface to []pcore.Value.

WrapStringToInterfaceMap does not preserve order since order is undefined in a Go map.

WrapStringToStringMap does not preserve order since order is undefined in a Go map.

WrapStringToTypeMap builds an ordered map from adds all entries in the given map.

WrapStringToValueMap builds an ordered map from adds all entries in the given map.

MAX_UNIX_SECS is an offset of 62135596800 seconds to sec that represents the number of seconds from 1970-01-01:00:00:00 UTC.

TODO: Implement Type.CanCoerce(Value) Object.IsInstance is true if value is a Hash matching the attribute requirements where each entry value can be coerced into the attribute´s type.

A BasicCollector is an extendable basic implementation of the Collector interface.