[chef] Ohai Custom Plugins

[Mark Pimentel < >]

I have written an Ohai custom plugin that determines the site and vlan of the node.

I need this information to define attrs for other cookbooks.

My problem is a chicken and egg scenario.  The chef-run borks on the attribute the ohai plugin is supposed to return as a string because it is not being set at compile time when I test the attr in a case.  When the attr evaluates the attribute it is nil when it expects a string.

Any thoughts on how to get around this?

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Thanks,

Mark