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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/chef/knife/search.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/chef/knife/search.rb | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/chef/knife/search.rb b/lib/chef/knife/search.rb index 1bb182a61b..cf2ca7b683 100644 --- a/lib/chef/knife/search.rb +++ b/lib/chef/knife/search.rb @@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ class Chef result_items = [] result_count = 0 - # rows = config[:rows] - # start = config[:start] search_args = Hash.new search_args[:sort] = config[:sort] search_args[:start] = config[:start] @@ -163,17 +161,24 @@ class Chef end end + # This method turns a set of key value pairs in a string into the appropriate data structure that the + # chef-server search api is expecting. + # expected input is in the form of: + # -f "return_var1=path.to.attribute, return_var2=shorter.path" + # + # a more concrete example might be: + # -f "env=chef_environment, ruby_platform=languages.ruby.platform" + # + # The end result is a hash where the key is a symbol in the hash (the return variable) + # and the path is an array with the path elements as strings (in order) + # See lib/chef/search/query.rb for more examples of this. def create_result_filter(filter_string) final_filter = Hash.new - - # this probably needs review. I betcha there's a better way!!! filter_string.gsub!(" ", "") filters = filter_string.split(",") filters.each do |f| - fsplit = f.split("=") - return_id = fsplit[0] - attr_path = fsplit[1].split(".") - final_filter[return_id.to_sym] = attr_path + return_id, attr_path = f.split("=") + final_filter[return_id.to_sym] = attr_path.split(".") end return final_filter end |