Problem with sub() method in role search after Chef 11->12

Chef Infra (archive)
1

Hello forum,

I have a recipe which was running fine under Chef 11 (yes, sorry, I know this is old...):

--snip--
allroles = search(:role, "name:*", "X_CHEF_id_CHEF_X asc")
allroles.each do |key|
  rolename = key
  rolename = rolename.sub(/role.(.*)./, '\1')
--snap--

Now after we had to move from v11 to v12, this breaks:
ERROR: undefined method `sub' for #Chef::Role:0x00000014f6d538

It seems the search delivered role objects as expected....can someone direct me in the right direction on why this does not work anymore?

thanks in advance!
S. Koenig

2

Try .gsub instead of sub, I think sub got removed.

3

Thanks for the hint. However the result is strangely enough the same:

undefined method `gsub'

edit: if I .to_s the rolename above, it seems to work.....

rolename = key.to_s
4

Your code inside the loop is using the entire role object. I'm not sure why you were able to treat it as a string in the past, but as you've found you can convert to a string with .to_s. If you just want to get the name out, though, it would be much easier to use the .name method, e.g.,

allroles.each do |role|
  rolename = role.name
  # etc