Plugin_path configuration issue with custom plugins

[chef-boneyard]

Plugin_path configuration issue with custom plugins

[cheeseplus]

Pretty sure there isn't anything unexpected here - if the attribute check is moved into the recipe as opposed to the attributes I'm pretty sure you'd get the desired effect. Try that and let us know - at least as I read this there isn't anything wrong so much as the order of operations should simply be changed.

[Annih]

Thanks for your suggestion, it surely "works", but this is not the described scenario ... I want to use my attribute in the attribute file. I don't want to move it to the recipe, I want the ohai attributes available in attributes phase, which seems to me normal.
For me, attributes files are here to compute attributes at certain time in the process, I don't want to compute my attributes in recipes, otherwise it breaks the flow, and the cookbook depending on me won't be able to rely on my attributes.

To rephrase my question:

I want to have access to custom ohai plugin's attributes inside attributes file; is there any other way than changing the Ohai::plugin_path using the chef-client cookbook?

[iennae]

What do you mean by the "attributes phase"? This cookbook isn't going to change how ohai works. The error you are pasting in here is around test kitchen + ohai.

[Annih]

@iennae the example I give you is a repro in kitchen yes.
When I talkk about attribute phase, I'm trying to name the phase when the attributes are compiled.

I'll try to explain in a different way, let's say cookbook B depends on an ohai attribute defined in cookbook A

1. ohai runs
2. A attributes are compiled
3. B attributes are compiled
   ... other stuffs are done
4. A recipe is included and compiled
5. B recipe is included and compiled

In this example, the "attribute phase" starts after 1. and ends before 4.
During this phase, because my ohai plugin is not in the plugin_path, it has not been loaded at step 1.
So in step 3. B attributes won't be able to compute a value based on the ohai plugin

Is it clearer this way?

[mikemol]

@Annih, if I understand the docs, you need to specify depends 'attributename' in ohai plugin you want to be able to consume an attribute within.

[Annih]

Thanks @mikemol for your answer, but in my case I'm not in a ohai plugin, I'm using the result of a plugin in attributes files.