[chef] Problems with search Funktion in same recipe during first run

[Christian Fröstl < >]

Hi,

I have a partial search in my tomcat recipe. I use it for finding out the

MySQL Server Backend for the tomcat application server.

At the beginning of my tomcat recipe I get the information for the Mysql

Server:

mysql_master_node = partial_search(:node, "roles:mysql_payment_server AND chef_environment:#{node.chef_environment}",

    :keys => { 'name' => ['name'],

               'ip' => ['ipaddress‘],

               'kernel_version' => ['kernel','version']

                                           }

        )

if mysql_master_node.length == 1

          mysql_master_node.each do |result|

            if result['name'] == node['machinename']

              node.set['tc']['payserver']['database_master'] = 'localhost'

            else

              node.set['tc']['payserver']['database_master'] =

mysql_master_node[0]['ip']

            end

          End

During the rest of the recipe, I will use the node variable

node['tc']['payserver'][‚database_master‘] to define the mysql backend

server in the server.xml of the tomcat.

template node['tc']['server_conf_file'] do

  source 'server.xml.erb'

  mode '0644'

  owner 'tomcatusr1'

  group 'tomcatusr1'

  variables({

                :mysql_master    =>

node['tc']['payserver']['database_master'],

            })

  notifies :restart, "service[#{node['tc']['service_name']}]"

End

It seems that the variable will set during the first run, and can only

used in the second chef-client run.

In the first run, the server.xml don’t have the content of

node['tc']['payserver'][‚database_master‘] in it. After the second run,

the file is correct.

Do you have any idea to solve this or is there a better way getting

backend server information?

Thanks in advance,

Christian