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

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Nick Peirson 
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 wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 15:40, Steven Danna wrote:
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>> I think that ultimately my strong opinion about this is to avoid using
>> the node object to pass state around resources if it is possible.
>> However, it is occasionally necessary, and in those cases I don't have
>> a strong opinion about whether to store the information in a node
>> attribute or the run_state.
>
> I agree. I've ended up using node.run_state to pass state, but this is
> implicit and not a convention I've seen documented. Anyone using my the LWRP
> I've written will have to understand this before being able to use it to
> find the state information.
>
> Andrea's suggestion seemed to provide a good solution, what are everyone's
> thoughts on it? If my ruby was stronger I'd try to hack together a pull
> request to get the ball rolling but, as it's not, would raising a bug report
> be a good starting point?

Indeed it would. Also, pestering^Wpinging people for feedback either
here or on IRC would help.
Ideally, it would be nice to have other use cases; for example,
existing cookbooks that could be simplified by this functionality.

If there is enough interest, I may sit down and implement it the next
time I get a time slot for working on Chef "core" functionality.
Or I may do it regardless, but no promise about that ;)

Andrea