PastryClient

Supported Operations

Initialize	Initialize the client with the chef server info
Load Config	Load server config from a yaml file
Get Url	Get the server and endpoint for the request
Call	Call a resource on the chef server

API Reference

class pastry.pastry_client.PastryClient

PastryClient is used by the resources to send requests to chef. You can use the PastryClient to initialize the config to use for the chef server.

classmethod call(endpoint, method='GET', data=None)

Send an http request to the chef server api

Parameters:

• endpoint (string) – The endpoint for the resource being called
• method (string) – The HTTP method
• data (hash) – The body of the request

Returns:

The json response from the server

Return type:

hash

classmethod get_url(endpoint)

Fetches the server and updates the endpoint with the organization

Parameters:endpoint (string) – The endpoint being called on the chef server Returns:The server url and updated endpoint Return type:tuple

classmethod initialize(server, organization, client, keypath, verify)

Initializes the server connection info

Parameters:

• server (string) – The url for the chef server e.g. https://my.chef.server
• organization (string) – The name of the cheff org to use
• client (string) – The client/username to use
• keypath (string) – The path to the pem for the client/user
• verify (boolean) – Verify the ssl cert on requests

classmethod load_config(config_path=None)

Load server config from a yaml file

If no config_path is specified it will try to load config from $HOME/.chef/pastry.yaml

Note

This method is automatically called if an http requests is made and the client has not yet been initialised

Parameters:config_path (string) – The path to the config file on the local filesystem