[chef] RE: Re: api.get(/environments/NAME) is not returning JSON

[Alex Myasnikov < >]

Got it, thank you Noah

-----Original Message-----
From: Noah Kantrowitz 
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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:00 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: api.get(/environments/NAME) is not returning JSON

What you get back is JSON with some magic hints such that Ruby turns it into 
a Chef::Environment object by default, which defines to_s to just return its 
name. You can either use it as a Ruby object, or use another client library 
that doesn't automatically inflate objects.

--Noah

On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Alex Myasnikov 
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 wrote:

> Ohai Chefs,
>  
> I am trying to programmatically pull existing environment json for a given 
> environment name off chef server via an authenticated API GET request to 
> /environments/NAME endpoint
>  
> knife exec getEnvjson.rb
>  
> getEnvjson.rb:
>  
> require "awesome_print"
>  
> env = api.get("/environments/STAGE")
>  
> ap env
>  
> exit 0
>  
> What I am getting back is just STAGE text value instead of the expected 
> fully blown json definition of the STAGE environment.
>  
> Am I missing something?
>  
> Running 11.4.0 chef server, thinking whether this is a known issue that's 
> been addressed in the subsequent releases and I should upgrade?
>  
> Thank you in advance.
>  
> Alex