Knife data bag from file with --all

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1

I am trying to get the --all option to work:

knife data bag from file [bag_name] --all # all data bag items assuming that
data bags are in the ./data_bags/

Although I successfully used create to first define a data bag on the server
and I can use from file with a data bag and an item .json file to upload a
single item, I cannot figure out how to use the --all option to upload all
items for a specified data bag. When I run it, a blank line is returned and
nothing is uploaded.

Does anyone have a working example of the --all option?

On a related topic, what is the difference inusing knife upload to upload data
bags or other content as compared to using the knife from file options?

2

Doesn’t “knife data bag from file [bag_name] *.json” work?

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist :: Opscode
512.731.2218 :: matt@opscode.com
mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

From: cpkampmeier@gmail.com [cpkampmeier@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:46 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] knife data bag from file with --all

I am trying to get the --all option to work:

knife data bag from file [bag_name] --all # all data bag items assuming that
data bags are in the ./data_bags/

Although I successfully used create to first define a data bag on the server
and I can use from file with a data bag and an item .json file to upload a
single item, I cannot figure out how to use the --all option to upload all
items for a specified data bag. When I run it, a blank line is returned and
nothing is uploaded.

Does anyone have a working example of the --all option?

On a related topic, what is the difference inusing knife upload to upload data
bags or other content as compared to using the knife from file options?

3

Yes, using *.json works. Thanks for the tip.

I suppose I'll need to dig into the --all support in the source to get a
better feel for whether it is supposed to work before filing a bug.

Chris

On 3/27/13 8:52 AM, Matt Ray wrote:

Doesn't "knife data bag from file [bag_name] *.json" work?

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist :: Opscode
512.731.2218 :: matt@opscode.com
mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

From: cpkampmeier@gmail.com [cpkampmeier@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:46 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] knife data bag from file with --all

I am trying to get the --all option to work:

knife data bag from file [bag_name] --all # all data bag items assuming that
data bags are in the ./data_bags/

Although I successfully used create to first define a data bag on the server
and I can use from file with a data bag and an item .json file to upload a
single item, I cannot figure out how to use the --all option to upload all
items for a specified data bag. When I run it, a blank line is returned and
nothing is uploaded.

Does anyone have a working example of the --all option?

On a related topic, what is the difference inusing knife upload to upload data
bags or other content as compared to using the knife from file options?

4

FWIW, I wrote a simple thor job to do this. Th guts of it look something
like this:

Chef::Config.from_file( < path to knife.rb >)
Dir.glob('./data_bags/*').select{|d| File.directory? d}.each do
|data_bag_dir|
bag = File.basename data_bag_dir
begin
Chef::DataBag.load(bag)
rescue Net::HTTPServerException => e
raise e unless e.response.code == "404"
dbag = Chef::DataBag.new
dbag.name(bag)
dbag.save
end

from_file = Chef::knife::DataBagFromFile.new
from_file.name_args = [ bag, data_bag_dir]
from_file.run
end

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Christopher Kampmeier <
cpkampmeier@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, using *.json works. Thanks for the tip.

I suppose I'll need to dig into the --all support in the source to get a
better feel for whether it is supposed to work before filing a bug.

Chris

On 3/27/13 8:52 AM, Matt Ray wrote:

Doesn't "knife data bag from file [bag_name] *.json" work?

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist :: Opscode
512.731.2218 :: matt@opscode.com
mattray :: GitHub :: IRC :: Twitter

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From: cpkampmeier@gmail.com [cpkampmeier@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:46 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] knife data bag from file with --all

I am trying to get the --all option to work:

knife data bag from file [bag_name] --all # all data bag items assuming
that
data bags are in the ./data_bags/

Although I successfully used create to first define a data bag on the
server
and I can use from file with a data bag and an item .json file to upload a
single item, I cannot figure out how to use the --all option to upload all
items for a specified data bag. When I run it, a blank line is returned
and
nothing is uploaded.

Does anyone have a working example of the --all option?

On a related topic, what is the difference inusing knife upload to upload
data
bags or other content as compared to using the knife from file options?