Search return just the node name and nothing else

[jamengual]

Hi.

I'm having a estrange issue with the search cookbook.

I created a data bag node :

{
"id": "splunk-server",
"name": "splunk_server",
"chef_environment": "_default",
"json_class": "Chef::Node",
"splunk_is_server": "true",
"ipaddress ": "123.123.123.123",
"automatic": {
"hostname": "splunk.server.com",
"os": "centos"
},
"normal": {
},
"chef_type": "node",
"default": {
},
"override": {
},
"run_list": [
"role[monitoring]"
]
}

but the result of the search was keep coming blank so I start printing variables on my recepies and I realize that this search :

splunk_servers = search(# ~FC003
:node,
"splunk_is_server:true")

it returns empty but if I search for :node I can see :
search(:node)
result :
node[splunk_server]

But the search above is trying to find on the chef server ( in this case the json file) all the nodes with the attribute "splunk_is_server": "true", but it doesn't seem to find it.

I'm doing something wrong on the json file ?

should I add those attributes to another section ?

Thanks.

PS : the template replacement code from the cookbook that I'm using
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-splunk/blob/master/templates/default/outputs.conf.erb

the original search code :

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-splunk/blob/master/recipes/client.rb

[heathsnow]

Has chef been successfully run on the "splunk_server" node yet?

[jamengual]

yes it did run successfully but the server ip is empty and that is what the search is for, to find the node: that has that attribute "splunk_is_server": "true" and then fill up the template

thanks.

[jamengual]

do you meen in the splunk server itself ? in that case no because I don't need it since I need the client to be installed not the server and the cookbook that I'm using search on the chef server for a splunk server node and if found one then uses the ipaddress attribute to fill up the template.

[lonniev]

Related to this, it would help if the README.md not only showed how to state a query but also showed a sample input json databag and a sample output query result for each query. As it is, a newbie user has no idea what to run the query against and what to expect as the type/format of the output.

[michaelglass]

@lonniev you have the chops to PR that?

[lonniev]

Now that I have read over the code in the providers directory for the users recipe, yes I probably could add the few lines of markdown that would illustrate how that search method returns an iterable array of json objects as the resultset.

However, I have my own code to debug and document and I'd prefer to stay focused there! ;-)