On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Riju Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to get the package version or service status using the
> puppet api calls?
>
> Following resource commands show version/status in the output:
> puppet resource package iptables
> puppet resource service iptables
>
> Can the api be used to get similar output?
>
Puppet resource command is a face, so you can query via:
> require 'puppet'
> require 'puppet/indirector/face'
> puts Puppet::Face[:resource, '0.0.1'].find('package/linecache').to_pson
{"title":"linecache","exported":false,"tags":["package","linecache"],"type":"Package","parameters":{"provider":"gem","configfiles":"keep","loglevel":"notice","ensure":["0.46"]}}
Look in the source code and there's additional examples such as listing all
resource of a type:
all_users = Puppet::Face[:resource, '0.0.1'].search("user")
Thanks,
Nan
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