Knife node show json format squished

Kallen · June 13, 2013, 1:35am

Recently the node output I see went from a nice “fully-expanded” view of the
json to the json being not expanded, being “squished”… for lack of better
phrasing.

Does anyone happen to know what happened, or how to get the output back to
fully-expanded?

$ knife node show db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com -Fj -l
{
“name”: “db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com”,
“chef_environment”: “staging1”,
“run_list”: [“role[base]”,“role[database]”],
“normal”: {“repo”:{“epel”:{“key”:“RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6”},“percona”:{“key”:“RPM-GPG-KEY-percona”},“centos”:{“key”:“RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5”,…snip-the-squish
"default": {“s3cmd”:{“users”:[“root”],“userlist”:[“foo”,“baz”]},“boundary”:{“bprobe”:…snip-the-squish
snip

I’m not exactly sure what changed in my dev environment, and when it did.
FWIW I did try downgrading my chef 10.26.0 to 10.24.0 within my rvm, but that
changed nothing.

06/12 17:34[zahadum chefdev] which ruby /home/kallen/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/ruby 06/12 18:33[zahadum chefdev] gem list chef

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

chef (10.26.0, 10.24.0)

John_Alberts · June 13, 2013, 3:28am

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it
started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be
helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

-bash-3.2# which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
-bash-3.2# ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-linux]
-bash-3.2# gem list chef

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

chef (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-expander (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server-api (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server-webui (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4,
0.10.0)
chef-solr (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)

Yes, yes, I know. I should clean these old gems up.

John

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:35 PM, kallen@groknaut.net wrote:

Recently the node output I see went from a nice "fully-expanded" view of
the
json to the json being not expanded, being "squished"... for lack of better
phrasing.

Does anyone happen to know what happened, or how to get the output back to
fully-expanded?

$ knife node show db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com -Fj -l
{
"name": "db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com",
"chef_environment": "staging1",
"run_list": ["role[base]","role[database]"],
"normal":
{"repo":{"epel":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6"},"percona":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-percona"},"centos":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5",..snip-the-squish
"default":
{"s3cmd":{"users":["root"],"userlist":["foo","baz"]},"boundary":{"bprobe":..snip-the-squish
snip

I'm not exactly sure what changed in my dev environment, and when it did.
FWIW I did try downgrading my chef 10.26.0 to 10.24.0 within my rvm, but
that
changed nothing.

06/12 17:34[zahadum chefdev]$ which ruby
/home/kallen/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/ruby
06/12 18:33[zahadum chefdev]$ gem list chef

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

chef (10.26.0, 10.24.0)

--
John Alberts

kallistec · June 13, 2013, 3:46pm

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 8:28 PM, John Alberts wrote:

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

-bash-3.2# which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
-bash-3.2# ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-linux]
-bash-3.2# gem list chef

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

chef (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-expander (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server-api (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-server-webui (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)
chef-solr (10.26.0, 10.24.4, 10.18.0, 10.16.2, 0.10.8, 0.10.4, 0.10.0)

Yes, yes, I know. I should clean these old gems up.

John

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:35 PM, <kallen@groknaut.net (mailto:kallen@groknaut.net)> wrote:

Recently the node output I see went from a nice "fully-expanded" view of the
json to the json being not expanded, being "squished"... for lack of better
phrasing.

Does anyone happen to know what happened, or how to get the output back to
fully-expanded?

I can't think of any changes to the relevant code in Chef recently that would cause this. The code path is:

Knife uses a presenter object to convert your data to a string: https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/core/generic_presenter.rb#L81

Chef adds some options for nesting levels, then calls JSON.pretty_generate chef/lib/chef/json_compat.rb at main · chef/chef · GitHub

I have 11.4.2 installed locally and it's correctly "pretty printing" the json, so there must be something different in your setup.

--
Daniel DeLeo

Steven_Danna · June 13, 2013, 3:57pm

On 6/12/13 8:28 PM, John Alberts wrote:

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it
started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be
helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

One possibility is that you are using a plugin that loads a gem which is
monkey-patching some core class, thus affecting the pretty-printing.

Are you using any custom/non-opscode plugin?

Sincerely,

Steven

--
Steven Danna
Systems Engineer, Opscode, Inc
GPG Key: http://stevendanna.github.com/downloads/code/public.key

Kallen · June 13, 2013, 6:19pm

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Steven Danna wrote:

On 6/12/13 8:28 PM, John Alberts wrote:

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it
started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be
helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

One possibility is that you are using a plugin that loads a gem which is
monkey-patching some core class, thus affecting the pretty-printing.

Are you using any custom/non-opscode plugin?

Sincerely,

Steven

For the most part, I had been using rvm ruby 1.9.2. Recently I installed
ruby 1.9.3 via rvm. I just tested this in my 1.9.2, and the json pretty
print is as I like it, unsquished:

$ which ruby
~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby

$ gem list chef

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

chef (10.24.0, 10.16.2)

Wrt custom/non-opscode knife plugins, for good measure, I moved aside my
~/.chef/plugins dir, reran ruby 1.9.3 test, and still got squished json.

kallen

Joshua_Miller · June 14, 2013, 5:50am

We are seeing this at my work also with the omnibus install.
—

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, null kallen@groknaut.net wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Steven Danna wrote:

On 6/12/13 8:28 PM, John Alberts wrote:

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it
started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be
helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

One possibility is that you are using a plugin that loads a gem which is
monkey-patching some core class, thus affecting the pretty-printing.

Are you using any custom/non-opscode plugin?

Sincerely,

Steven
For the most part, I had been using rvm ruby 1.9.2. Recently I installed
ruby 1.9.3 via rvm. I just tested this in my 1.9.2, and the json pretty
print is as I like it, unsquished:
$ which ruby
~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby
$ gem list chef
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
chef (10.24.0, 10.16.2)
Wrt custom/non-opscode knife plugins, for good measure, I moved aside my
~/.chef/plugins dir, reran ruby 1.9.3 test, and still got squished json.
kallen

Kallen · July 9, 2013, 12:38am

Squish is due to this problem with knife-spork:

github.com/jonlives/knife-spork

knife-spork json file updates undo pretty print format

opened 08:41PM - 05 May 13 UTC

closed 06:05PM - 29 Jan 14 UTC

toddmichael

First and foremost, thanks for this life-changing tool. Sincerely: I'm a better… Dad because of Knife-Spork! :-) The issue: Basically, I have all json laid out in pretty-print format as it's much easier to manage, but anytime I run knife spork and it touches my json files, the pretty print formatting gets blown away. Possibly just a user issue on my part so sorry if I'm wasting your time. It has become quite a source of frustration in an otherwise peaceful knife-spork world. Here's a link to a Gist that demonstrates the problem: https://gist.github.com/toddmichael/407b574e3b6662e0bbd2. Appreciate the help. Cheers!

If I remove the knife-spork gem/plugin, my json output is pretty again.

kallen

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Joshua Miller wrote:

We are seeing this at my work also with the omnibus install.
???

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, null kallen@groknaut.net wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Steven Danna wrote:

On 6/12/13 8:28 PM, John Alberts wrote:

me too! I've noticed this recently too. I'm not really sure when it
started happening, so I can't really offer any details that would be
helpful. I'd love to hear if you find a solution.

One possibility is that you are using a plugin that loads a gem which is
monkey-patching some core class, thus affecting the pretty-printing.

Are you using any custom/non-opscode plugin?

Sincerely,

Steven
For the most part, I had been using rvm ruby 1.9.2. Recently I installed
ruby 1.9.3 via rvm. I just tested this in my 1.9.2, and the json pretty
print is as I like it, unsquished:
$ which ruby
~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby
$ gem list chef
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
chef (10.24.0, 10.16.2)
Wrt custom/non-opscode knife plugins, for good measure, I moved aside my
~/.chef/plugins dir, reran ruby 1.9.3 test, and still got squished json.
kallen

jdunn · July 9, 2013, 12:42am

I don't have knife-spork installed but I also see this issue. Strange.

Julian

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:38 PM, kallen@groknaut.net wrote:

Squish is due to this problem with knife-spork:
knife-spork json file updates undo pretty print format · Issue #66 · jonlives/knife-spork · GitHub

If I remove the knife-spork gem/plugin, my json output is pretty again.

kallen

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