[chef] Re: Re: Chef-solo and output formatters via config.rb?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Oh, is there a difference / inconsistency between chef-client and chef-solo?

@miketheman reports that `formatter` works with chef-client:

https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/1250#issuecomment-22203385

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thanks, `add_formatter` works! :-) 

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Torben Knerr wrote:

Hi everybody,

I just noticed that setting the output formatter via solo.rb does not work:

```solo.rb

log_level :warn

formatter "minimal"

```

When I run `chef-solo -j dna.json -c solo.rb` it picks up the correct log_level from solo.rb but still uses the "doc" formatter.

Running `chef-solo -j dna.json -c solo.rb -F min` works though, so it seems it just does not pick it up from solo.rb...

This was observed on Chef 11.4.4 and Chef 11.6.0. 

Is this a known bug?

Cheers, Torben

Use `add_formatter`. Chef has support for multiple formatters, so that you could hypothetically have one that prints user readable output to the screen while another prints machine parseable output to a file (or send data over the network to a centralized storage system or whatever). The configuration settings are pretty basic right now (you only can configure a formatter name and a file path), and I'm sure people will bump into limitations once they really start using it, but that's why it is this way.

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Daniel DeLeo