dear friends,
I am wading into some murky waters. You may want to comment before some of
this code pollutes your own drinking source.
jira/recipes/default.rb
tomcat "jira" do
user node['jira']['user']
action :install
end
This tomcat LWRP determines a path for the resulting tomcat instance
depending on the attributes set in the tomcat cookbook.
following this tomcat instance I need to place various dependencies into
the tomcat instance, .war, .jar files specifically
I have done the following. The tomcat LWRP appends a attribute to the
calling cookbook
node[self.cookbook_name]['tomcat']['base'] = "/usr/local/tomcat/jira"
then to grab the mysql java library, I do the following:
jira/recipes/default.rb
grabs library dependency and puts in a destination
ivy "mysql-connector-java" do
groupId "mysql"
version "5.1.18"
dest_attr "tomcat_base/lib"
end
I use the funky dest_attr attribute and parse it to be
eval( "node['#{self.cookbook_name}']['tomcat]['base'] + '/lib'")
Can anyone think of a better way to do this?
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
hedge hog, tks, unfortunately i don't think my particular resource can be
expressed as a task or a service, and I am on RHELOn Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Hedge Hog hedgehogshiatus@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com
wrote:I have an issue where I need to provide values generated dynamically by
one
resource to resources that follow itMy tomcat lwrp generates a base directory for each new instance that is
a
readable attribute "base"Following resources will use that base attribute. In this example, the
ivy
resource should place a .jar file in the #{base}/lib directoryIf you are on a system that provides upstart, then I think you'll find
upstart will scratch that itch most effectively[0].
Of course this assumes that each of the current resources can be
expressed as a task or service.
I generally use Chef to tweak a generic upstart conf template, and use
the emit/emits/start on/stop on to look after chaining and sequencing.
If you go down this path you might have to pay attention to upstart
synchronisation[1].HTH
[0]
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#run-a-job-when-a-file-or-directory-is-created-deleted
[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#synchronisationinclude_recipe "ark"
include_recipe "tomcat::base"
include_recipe "ivy"
t = tomcat "jira" do
user node['jira']['user']
action :install
end
get mysql connector
ivy "mysql-connector-java" do
groupId "mysql"
version "5.1.18"
dest "#{t.base}/lib" # evaluates to "/lib"
end
ruby_block "foobarbaz" do
block do
Chef::Log.debug("t.base is #{t.base}") # t.base evaluates to"/usr/local/tomcat/jira"
end
end
I have found a solution thanks to Jorge Espada, but there really should
be a
more straightforward way to do this.t = tomcat "jira" do
user node['jira']['user']
action :nothing
end
t.run_action :install
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