[chef-dev] Re: whyrun and handlers?

[Joseph Holsten < >]

They probably need to be smart. I've got two kinds of handlers: monitoring 
and logging. I'd like my graphite & airbrake handlers not to send stuff if 
things 'break', but I'd like the updated resources handler to keep displaying 
its output.

On 2013-03-13, at 08:26, Mike 
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 wrote:

> Ohai,
> 
> Recently we noticed that when running Chef in whyrun mode, the report
> and exception handlers [1] seem to still fire, providing extra chatter
> with the output of a non-run.
> 
> So my general question is:
> 
> Should handlers be enabled during a Chef run, or should each handler
> be "smart" about handling whyrun mode?
> 
> -M
> 
> [1]: http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_handlers.html