[chef] Re: Re: REST API question: How to fetch file?

[Roberto Leibman < >]

On 10/08/2015 12:27 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Roberto Leibman 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
>
> > I need to fetch an attribute file from the chef service...
> >
> > Using the REST API, I call
> >
> > GET /organizations/NAME/cookbooks/NAME/VERSION
> >
> > And among other things I get:
> >
> > {
> >           "name":"versions.rb",
> >           "path":"attributes/versions.rb",
> >           
> > "url":"https://myserver:443/bookshelf/organization-3217b9e79830f0fa8747107257d4e50e/checksum-bec47221813e48f656813335fbf57677?AWSAccessKeyId=1d77956dc74704cfa99edc19d2f93bb7909ae802&Expires=1444350260&Signature=kNVJhVbKdSdXI5aLW6X7zS/wHw%3D";,
> >           "checksum":"bec47221813e48f656813339fbf57677",
> >           "specificity":"default"
> >        }
> >
> > I tried to fetch the file using the url given (either directly, or using the 
> > same signature schema as other REST api calls), but it doesn't work, I get a 
> > 403.
> >
> > What is the meaning of the URL if it's not to fetch the file? How do I fetch 
> > the file? Is there a different REST api call that will give me the file 
> > directly (since I know everything else about it)
> What are you trying to do? Attempting to manually re-implement cookbook 
> downloads seems like a bad idea. Can you illustrate your use case?
>
> --Noah
Excelent question. I need to provide some limited functionality to some 
users that's similar to the chef web ui, in particular, I need to be 
able to display a file that's calculated (i.e. not in source control 
anywhere else)... the file itself is a calculation of all the npm 
packages that are "latest" when my cookbook is "cooked" into chef-client.

Why do you think that seems like a bad idea?