[chef] Re: "notify" on any change made in an include_recipe call

[Lamont Granquist < >]

Nope, include_recipe is a compile-time hack more like #include than a 
resource.

If we had resources that were recipes you might be able to do something 
like that (in fact that is an excellent requirement for 
recipes-as-resources as a feature).

On 09/29/2015 01:53 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> I've never seen any code to do this, so I figured I'd throw it out there
> as a question in case there's some crazy existing way to solve it.
>
> Cookbook reuse... Community cookbooks...
>
> Is something like the following idea possible? Or is the lack of ability
> to do the following one of the reasons for the new-headed resource-heavy
> cookbook design push[1]?
>
> include_recipe 'java' do
>    notifies :restart, 'service[myjava-service]', :immediately
> end
>
> Footnotes:
>
> 1. java "8" do
>       notifies :restart, 'service[myjava-service]', :immediately
>     end