[chef] Re: Using platform_family in a provider?

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Hi Chris,

Providers do have access to the node object, but you must refer to it
directly e.g. node['platform_family'] . I don't believe the syntactic
sugar of platform_family? is available.

In library context you don't have access to the node object, so you
can either pass it in on object initialization (e.g.
https://github.com/socrata-cookbooks/java/blob/master/libraries/helpers.rb#L27)
or passing parameters on method invocation.

- Julian

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Christopher Armstrong
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 wrote:
> Ohai Chefs,
>
> I'm doing some Christmas Eve hacking, and I think I'm not approaching
> something properly.
>
> Here is what I'm trying to do:
> https://github.com/socrata-cookbooks/java/pull/111/files
>
> Essentially, I need to conditionalize code in a provider based on the node's
> platform_family, but I don't believe I have access to the node objects or
> methods within a provider. I could pass it in as a parameter, but that seems
> clunky - the user of the provider shouldn't care about this detail. It's
> something I want to abstract.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction? I still get confused about
> what Chef methods are available in recipes, libraries, providers, etc.
>
> Happy Holidays!
>
> Chris



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