Client resource creates clones

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Client resource creates clones

Closed this issue 9 years ago · 2 comments

Supposing I have client on chef server (open-source server in my case)

connection.clients.update('name', :name => 'new')

It saves new client but old one remains there as well, so basically it clones the client and saves it under new name. That's probably not expected.

Answer 1 · 2015-02-23T18:56:38.000Z

This is behaving as expected, kinda. Clients are "keyed" by name, so changing the name actually creates a new resource in the Chef Server. This is documented in the Chef Server API. I supposed ChefAPI could blacklist changing the name attribute, but that seems like bad UX.

Answer 2 · 2015-02-24T06:51:10.000Z

Oh, thanks for clarification and fast answer, it's quite confusing, so maybe readme should cover that. Feel free to close this issue then :-)