[chef] Re: Re: re-opening resources at run-time

[Bryan Berry < >]

one option is to create a new lwrp  tomcat_svc that would do something similar

tomcat_svc "jira" do

   subscribes :restart, (resources => [ template1, template2, templaten ]

   action :start

end

this lwrp would require the original tomcat lwrp to keep a list of config resources it creates. then the tomcat_svc  interrogates the tomcat resource for its config files and subscribes to them.

this blog post has thrown me for a loop and making me rethink everything

http://blog.nistu.de/2012/03/04/reusability-in-configuration-management-systems/

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Bryan Berry < "> > wrote:

I can't because I have to have all of those templates in place before starting tomcat for the first time

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Brian Akins < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:

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> run_time "tomcat[jira]" do
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>    subscribes :restart, resources(templates => ['jdbc configuration', 'jira properties'] ), :immediately
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>    action :start
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> end
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Can you just use notifies for those templates?

Like:

file "jira properties" do  path "#{t.base}/webapps/jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties"  content <<-EOS

 # generated by Chef, don't touch!


 jira.home = /home/jira


 EOS

notifies :restart, "tomcat[jira]", :immediately

owner jira_user

end