[chef] Re: LWRP with resources: was Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: param[:name] bizarreness when nesting defines

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Brian Akins wrote:

> So, if I wanted this service to be able to notify others ( by calling 
> new_resource.updated_by_last_action(true), right?)  how could I know if the 
> directory, for example, got created, so I'd want to pass that notify up?  
> Asked another way: how do I pass along the updated status of the underlying 
> resources if I use them in an LWRP.

They're just resources, so they can be accessed like any others through a 
notification handler. You'd need to use subscribes.

daemontools_service "my_service" do
  directory "/etc/service/my_service"
end

file "/tmp/i_got_updated_by_a_directory" do
  subscribes :create, "directory[/etc/service/my_service]"
end

However, I probably wouldn't do that, and instead notify/subscribe the LWRP 
resource.

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