[chef] Re: Re: Using Chef to install Java (my first recipe)

[phil swenson < >]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Christopher Armstrong < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

node['java']['install_flavor'] = 'oracle'

Which file do I set “node['java']['install_flavor'] = ‘oracle’”??

this is something fundamental to chef I don’t get. I tried setting this in main/recipes/default.rb but node evaluates to nil.

thanks

phil

error:

NoMethodError

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undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

Cookbook Trace:

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  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/set_attributes_from_version.rb:22:in `from_file'

  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/default.rb:21:in `from_file'

  /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/main/recipes/default.rb:11:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

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/root/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/java/recipes/set_attributes_from_version.rb:

 15:

 16:  # Calculate variables that depend on jdk_version

 17:  # If you need to override this in an attribute file you must use

 18:  # force_default or higher precedence.

 19:

 20:  case node['platform_family']

 21:  when "rhel", "fedora"

 22>>   case node['java']['install_flavor']

 23:    when "oracle"

 24:      node.default['java']['java_home'] = "/usr/lib/jvm/java"

 25:    when "oracle_rpm"

 26:      node.default['java']['java_home'] = "/usr/java/latest"

 27:    else

 28:      node.default['java']['java_home'] = "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.#{node['java']['jdk_version']}.0"

 29:    end

 30:    node.default['java']['openjdk_packages'] = ["java-1.#{node['java']['jdk_version']}.0-openjdk", "java-1.#{node['java']['jdk_version']}.0-openjdk-devel"]

 31:  when "freebsd"