[chef] Re: Re: Re: Using data generated in a LWRP

[Bryan Berry < >]

Steven Danna had some pretty strong opinions about where to store data returned from an lwrp iirc

SSD, care to chime in?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Nick Peirson < "> > wrote:

On 03/04/2012 07:53, Andrea Campi wrote:

We could store a reference to either the Notification or
notification.notifying_resource in the run_context, so that the
notified resource could access it.
I don't see a real downside here, and it.

This sounds like the ideal solution. From the replies it sounds like a few people have this issue and have found ways to deal with it, however this would seem like a better implementation as it makes it clearer that this data has been made available by the LWRP and gives a clear indication of when the data will be available. I think node.run_state will do what I want, so I'm going to take a look at it, but I feel that it may not be as clear for other people looking at my code how/when something was pushed into the node.run_state. Andrea's suggested solution feels much more explicit, which I prefer.

If there is, as you say, no downside, then providing this as an optional way of approaching the problem leaves the choice down to the developer of the LWRP/resource as to how they wish to implement it.

Either way, I'm very impressed with the amount of constructive responses, what a great community! Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks
Nick