[chef] Re: RE: Issue with Chef not finding contents within a file

[Matt Clark < >]

Nice catch! I am using Nokogiri to parse the XML and select the elements to match with search statements. It looks like Nokogiri is stripping out the space between the ending tag. I'll look into that.

Thanks!

Matt

On Sep 8, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Stuart Preston < "> > wrote:

Could it be down to a simple spacing issue? Your web.config looks like it has a space before the slash that self-closes the element, but your example in the failure message doesn’t appear to have this space?

 

Stuart

 

From: Matt Clark [ ">mailto: ]
Sent: 08 September 2015 17:57
To: Chef Mailing List < "> >
Subject: [chef] Issue with Chef not finding contents within a file

 

Hello Chefs! 

I am working on an audit mode cookbook that verifies an application was deployed to IIS with the expected configuration and token values in the Web.config. The issue I am experiencing is that Chef tells me that the values I am expecting to exist in the Web.config file are not there, but manually reviewing the file shows them to be there. I thought perhaps IIS was locking the file, so I copied it out to a temporary location but I am still seeing it fail. 

Exception 
========= 
1) Verify deployment tokens should exist 
   Failure/Error: expect(file(web_config_file)).to contain token 
     expected File "Web.config" to contain "<add key=\"GFSIntranetDBType\" value=\"false\"/>" 
   # c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/nsm_deploy_audit/recipes/audit.rb:93:in `block (5 levels) in from_file'

Snippet of Web.config 
=================== 
... 
<add key="GFSIntranetDBType" value="false" /> 
... 

Relevant code in cookbook 
======================== 
web_config_file = "Web.config" 

control "tokens" do 
        # tokens_to_check is an array of strings each containing XML text that is expected in the web.config 
        tokens_to_check.each do |token| 
                it 'should exist' do 
                        expect(file(web_config_file)).to contain token 
                end 
        end 
end 

Any guidance you all could provide in identifying the cause of the failures is appreciated! 

Thanks, 
Matt