[chef] Re: Re: Re: Recipe type search

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:

> Hmm... I've tried that but I get this from the WebUI
> 
> "Unable to find the node. (400 "Bad Request")"
> 
> -J
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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> > search(:node, 'recipes:"postfix::delivery"')
> > 
> > --Noah
> > 
> > On May 20, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > To get a list of nodes with recipe postfix I'm using search(:node,
> > > "recipe:postfix"), but in this case I actually only want nodes with
> > > the postfix sub-recipe "delivery" (postfix::delivery). How do I
> > > express that correctly in the search syntax? (just putting in
> > > "postfix::delivery" returns an error) Thank you in advance.
> > > 
> > > -J

I don' know about the WebUI, but this works for me in shef:

search(:node, 'recipes:postfix\:\:delivery')

Single vs. double quotes is significant here since you want to include a 
backslash in the string instead of having ruby interpret it as an escape.

Dan