[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Advice on writing an LWRP

[Charles Sullivan < >]

I have a s3_file resource i can send you that extends the same class. It 
isn't a LWRP and extends the class correctly.  When I get home from the pub 
I'll attach it.  Only thing it doesn't do is check checksums correctly 
because amazon uses md5 not sha. 

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On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:46 PM, 
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 wrote:

> Hello all, 
> 
> I am trying to write a LWRP, and following the instructions, have something
> basic working, now comes the hard part, making it do what I really want. 
> 
> The main problem is I don't want to duplicate code and so want to extend a
> Provider that comes with Chef (RemoteFile), but a LWP gets a class 
> dynamically
> generated for it. Is there any way to specify that the generated class in a 
> LWP
> should extend another? I tried just plopping a whole ruby class (partially
> included below) in the LWP file, but when run it fails complaining " FATAL:
> NameError: uninitialized constant
> #<Class:0x1024a9888>::Chef::Provider::RemoteFile" even though I had 
> required 
> 'chef/provider/remote_file'. 
> 
> I can of course copy the methods from File and RemoteFile into my LWP, but I
> don't want to do that if I can avoid it. 
> 
> Thank you in advance. 
> 
> 
> Code excerpt mentioned above:
> 
> require 'chef/provider/remote_file'
> class Chef
>  class Provider
>    class S3File < Chef::Provider::RemoteFile
>    ...
>    end
>  end
> end