[chef] Re: Hosted Chef API - client resource discrepancies

[Seth Chisamore < >]

Jamie,
Try changing the 'clientname' attribute to a 'name' attribute.

The minimal client create body for OHC/OPC should be:

{"name":"ridley-test", "admin":false}

This should work across all flavors of Chef Server, as this is also the same 
format used by the api client leveraged by chef-client:
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/api_client.rb#L243

-- 
Seth Chisamore
Software Development Engineer, Opscode, Inc.
IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: schisamo

On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Jamie Winsor 
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 wrote:

> Hey Noah,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response. I verified that I'm sending the 'orgname', 
> 'validator', 'client name', and 'certificate' attributes with my request 
> and ditching the FOSS specific attributes but am still receiving the same 
> error. Have you tested the Python client lately against the current 
> installation of Hosted Chef?
> 
> Request Body
> {\"chef_type\":\"client\",\"json_class\":\"Chef::ApiClient\",\"clientname\":\"ridley-test\",\"validator\":false,\"certificate\":null,\"orgname\":\"vialstudios\"}"
> 
> 
> Response Body
> "{\"error\":[null,\"Clientname must not be blank\",\"Clientname has an 
> invalid format\"]}"
> 
> -- 
> Jamie Winsor
> @resetexistence
> https://github.com/reset
> 
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
>> Check out https://github.com/coderanger/pychef/blob/master/chef/client.py. ;
>> The implementation is a bit different between the FOSS server and the 
>> Hosted/Private server.
>> 
>> --Noah
>> 
>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Jamie Winsor wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm working on a thread safe Chef API client with async capabilities for 
>>> dispatching parallel requests to a Chef Server. Through writing my 
>>> acceptance tests I've noticed that the client resource has a few 
>>> discrepancies with creation and retrieval of clients than what is 
>>> outlined in the official documentation: 
>>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Server+API. It's worth noting that 
>>> this documentation reflects the behavior of the Open Source Server 
>>> correctly.
>>> 
>>> Retrieving a client: GET /clients/[NAME]
>>> 
>>> 1. client response does not contain an 'admin' field or value
>>> 2. client response contains an additional 'orgname' attribute
>>> 3. client response contains an additional 'validator' attribute
>>> 4. client response contains an additional field 'clientname' which is 
>>> identical to 'name'
>>> 5. client response contains an additional field 'certificate' which 
>>> appears to be a private key?
>>> 
>>> See the raw response below:
>>> 
>>> {
>>> "orgname": "vialstudios",
>>> "validator": false,
>>> "clientname": "asdf",
>>> "name": "asdf",
>>> "certificate": "-----BEGIN 
>>> CERTIFICATE-----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\\n38zQYaVAylQPNfIe/7M=\\n-----END
>>>  CERTIFICATE-----\\n"
>>> }
>>> 
>>> Creating a client: POST /clients
>>> 1. creating a client with a JSON body containing a 'name' and 'admin' 
>>> field with a proper string and boolean value results in the error:
>>> 
>>> 400 - Bad Request
>>> {
>>> "error": [
>>> null,
>>> "Clientname must not be blank",
>>> "Clientname has an invalid format"
>>> ]
>>> }
>>> 
>>> 2. even by specifying an additional 'clientname' field with a value the 
>>> same error is returned.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Are there any updated docs regarding the client creation API or dealing 
>>> with client permissions via the API in Private/Hosted Chef?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jamie Winsor
>>> @resetexistence
>>> https://github.com/reset
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