[chef] Re: Re: Exception Handlers with ignore_failure

[Andrea Campi < >]

Are you sure?
The events.resource_failed in the code that you pasted looks exactly what is 
needed. I don't have the code in front of me but I think notifiers have 
access to that.

On Dec 4, 2012, at 7:06 AM, jfotop 
<
 >
 wrote:

> 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!
> ============================================
> 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