The 'Configurable' role provides a bunch of methods that lets you modify some configuration files (ini and xml files). If a host is marked as read-only during the course of execution, then any attempt to configure that should result in an error.

Now, to answer you questions

a) the user checks  if ($host->configurable()) before using those methods. It is a syntactic sugar for has_role.

b) Configurable provide getters/setters and a whole bunch of other methods. The epxectation is that the object should not expose any of those methods.

c) What's the question ? I've no clue what '???' means.

And as to why I am doing this, this(making nodes readonly) is quite a common scenario when you are working with a set of network devices acting together. Call it a cluster of nodes if you want. I am just trying to see if there is a simple way of achieving what I want. Thanks

In reply to Re^2: Remove a role from a Moose object by balachandran
in thread Remove a role from a Moose object by balachandran

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