[chef] Disabling logger/formater on a per-resource basis

[Joe Nuspl < >]

Ohai!

I love seeing the diffs during chef-client/chef-solo runs.  It is such a huge aid in debugging.

That being said, there are certain resources, i.e. key files, where I don’t want this enabled.

I’m currently dealing with this like:

saved = Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold]

Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold] = 0

f = Chef::File::Resource.new(path, run_context)

f.action :nothing

f.content from_encrypted_databag

f.run_action(:create)

Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold] = saved

It is really ugly, but it gets the job done.  Taking inspiration from nod from chef-sugar, I could do something like:

def quietly(&block)

saved = Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold]

Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold] = 0

begin

instance_eval(&block)

rescue Exception => ex

Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold] = saved

raise ex

end

Chef::Config[:diff_filesize_threshold] = saved

end

And then do:

quietly do

f = Chef::File::Resource.new(filename, run_context)

f.action :nothing

f.content from_encrypted_databag

f.run_action(:create)

end

Is there a better way of doing this?  Maybe:

file filename do

action :create

content from_encrypted_databag

with {:diff_filesize_threshold => 0 }

end

Thanks.

Joe