[chef] developing a mysql resource

[Dmitry V'yal < >]

Greetings, chefs!

I've decided to refactor my cookbooks and to separate the logic of 
creating and initial filling mysql databases into the lightweight 
resource. I took MysqlDatabase as a basis.

The idea was to create a database if one doesn't exist,
then to create the database user if it's name & password are specified 
and to fill the database with supplied data, if it's empty.

Unfortunately, I've run into the troubles while writing the provider 
action. Conditional statements of the action body are evaluated before 
resources defined above are run. For example, I can't make a test 
whether the database is empty because It would be created later than my 
test and corresponding 'if' statement is evaluated.

I think it's a frequent problem. I'd like the hear some thoughts and 
advices on how to avoid it.

Regards,
Dmitry

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