[chef] Re: Notifications order and grouping

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Thanks for your response, Daniel!

> Depending on your constraints, you may be best off creating an LWRP for 
> your group of resources and notifying it.

How can I notify that LWRP?

Created it like this in providers/apply_config.rb:
> action :run do
>   execute "SetPermissions" do
>     ...
>   end
> 
>   # Rebuild ZZZAAuto.pm
>   execute "RebuildConfig" do
>     ...
>   end
> end


But how to notify it? My only guess was
> notifies :run, "providers[apply_config]"

which, of course, does not work.

Thanks in advance
Steffen

On 21.01.2012, at 20:07, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
> 
>> Hi list!
>> 
>> Can I be sure that resources notified by delayed notifications are 
>> executed in the same order as they were notified? Or is this 
>> non-deterministic?
> Delayed notifications are queued in the order received. One possible gotcha 
> here is that duplicate notifications are quashed, so if you send 
> notifications A, B, C, A, you end up with just A, B, C, and the last one is 
> ignored.
> 
>> 
>> And is it possible to group resource and notify them at once? e.g. I want 
>> to execute some scripts but don't want to list every single one of them at 
>> many places. So can I just notify one resource, which then includes a 
>> bunch of resources to execute?
> Depending on your constraints, you may be best off creating an LWRP for 
> your group of resources and notifying it.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help
>> Steffen
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan DeLeo
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