[chef] Re: Exception Handlers with ignore_failure

[jfotop < >]

From what I saw in "def run_action" of Class: Chef::Resource:
begin
    return if should_skip?(action)
    provider_for_action(action).run_action
  rescue Exception => e
    if ignore_failure
      Chef::Log.error("#{self} (#{defined_at}) had an error: #{e.message};
ignore_failure is set, continuing")
      events.resource_failed(self, action, e)
    elsif retries > 0
    .....
    .....

and from what I read about Chef Exception handlers, it probably can't be done.

For now, I have created an ugly solution...a chef-client wrapper script which
gets the output of chef-client run and if an exception is tossed out with an
exit status of 0, an email is sent with the output.

Ugly, but I was short of ideas and since I'm running from cron, it willll do.
If anyone else has a better idea, please share..

Could this possibly reviewed as a possible feature ?
Thanks!
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For anyone interested, the wrapper script is:
#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/chef-client > /tmp/chef-init-run.tmp
let chef-success=$?

grep Exception /tmp/chef-init-run.tmp > /dev/null 2>&1
let exception_found=$?

if [[ $chef-success -eq 0  && $exception_found -eq 0 ]];then
        /bin/mail -s "Chef run detected some errors, although chef run
completed successfully on `host -TtA $(hostname) |awk '{print $1}'`"

 
 < /tmp/chef-init-run.tmp
fi

# Now remove the temp file
/bin/rm -f /tmp/chef-init-run.tmp