[chef] RE: Re: Knife search shows attributes but cannot find same attribute in recipe

[M G < >]

Hi AJ

OK. I ran the recipe using your suggestion and still the variable tcuser comes up empty when running on the node.

knife search node name:devwsgw20150130113529 -a tomcat

1 items found

devwsgw20150130113529:

  tomcat:

    base: /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.54

    user: tomcat

As you can see the attribute tomcat has two child attributes base and user with values in them.

In the recipe, I have the following code:

tc=node.attribute[:tomcat][:base]

log "tc base is #{tc}"

tcuser=node['tomcat']['user']

log "tc user is #{tcuser}"

And while running it I get 

  * log[tc base is /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.54] action write

  * log[tc user is ] action write

So you see using the colon notation I am able to get the value of tomcat's child attribute "base" 

but using the colon notation and your suggested notation I get nothing.  This is strange behavior that I have not encountered .

Any suggestions/pointers ?

Regards

mg

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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:45:11 +1300
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Subject: [chef] Re: Knife search shows attributes but cannot find same attribute in recipe

```

tcuser=node.attribute[:tomcat][:user]

log "tc user is #{tcuser}"

```

this is wrong, you want something like:

```

tcuser = node['tomcat']['user']

```

in your Recipe. I don't know that `node.attribute` does what you mean.

cheers,

--aj

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:42 PM, M G < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi

When i do 

knife search node name:devwsgw20150130113529 -a tomcat.user

1 items found

devwsgw20150130113529:

  tomcat.user: tomcat

I see there is an attribute called tomcat.user

In recipe I am using,

tcuser=node.attribute[:tomcat][:user]

log "tc user is #{tcuser}"

When I run the chef-client on the above node, i see the following line printed

Compiling Cookbooks...

Converging 14 resources

Recipe: update::deploy

  * log[tc user is ] action write

Why can knife search the attribute and the recipe cannot?

Please provide pointers/suggestions.

Regards

mg