github.com/go-chef/chef@v0.30.1/README.md (about) 1 [](https://waffle.io/go-chef/chef) 2 [](https://app.wercker.com/project/bykey/9cfd4b53ea24e0894904067f283e4cf8) 3 [](https://coveralls.io/r/go-chef/chef?branch=master) 4 5 # Chef Server API Client Library in Golang 6 This is a Library that you can use to write tools to interact with the chef server. 7 8 ## Install 9 10 go get github.com/go-chef/chef 11 12 ## Test 13 14 go get -t github.com/go-chef/chef 15 go test -v github.com/go-chef/chef 16 test_chef_server: kitchen verify # integration tests 17 18 ## SSL 19 20 If you run into an SSL verification problem when trying to connect to a ssl server with self signed certs set up your config object with `SkipSSL: true` 21 22 ## Usage 23 This example is setting up a basic client that you can use to interact with all the service endpoints (clients, nodes, cookbooks, etc. At [@chefapi](https://docs.chef.io/api_chef_server.html)) 24 More usage examples can be found in the [examples](examples) directory. 25 26 ```go 27 package main 28 29 import ( 30 "fmt" 31 "os" 32 "github.com/go-chef/chef" 33 ) 34 35 func main() { 36 // read a client key 37 key, err := os.ReadFile("key.pem") 38 if err != nil { 39 fmt.Println("Couldn't read key.pem:", err) 40 os.Exit(1) 41 } 42 43 // build a client 44 client, err := chef.NewClient(&chef.Config{ 45 Name: "foo", 46 Key: string(key), 47 // goiardi is on port 4545 by default. chef-zero is 8889 48 BaseURL: "http://localhost:4545", 49 }) 50 if err != nil { 51 fmt.Println("Issue setting up client:", err) 52 } 53 54 // List Cookbooks 55 cookList, err := client.Cookbooks.List() 56 if err != nil { 57 fmt.Println("Issue listing cookbooks:", err) 58 } 59 60 // Print out the list 61 fmt.Println(cookList) 62 } 63 ``` 64 65 ## Chef API Error Status 66 To get the error status and error message returned from calls to the Chef API Server 67 you can use ChefError to unwind the ErrorResponse and access the original http error. 68 These methods are available to get specific information from the the error. 69 70 * Error() returns a formatted error message with the URL and status code. 71 * StatusCode() returns the original return status code. 72 * StatusMsg() returns the error message extracted from the error message body. 73 * StatusText() returns the returned error message body, usually JSON. 74 * StatusMethod() returns the name of the method used for the request. 75 * StatusURL() returns the URL object used for the request. 76 77 ## CONTRIBUTING 78 79 If you feel like contributing, great! Just fork the repo, make your 80 improvements, and submit a pull request. Tests would, of course, be appreciated. 81 Adding tests where there are no tests currently would be even more appreciated. 82 At least, though, try and not break anything worse than it is. Test coverage has 83 improved, but is still an ongoing concern. 84 85 ## AUTHORS 86 87 | | | 88 |:--------------|:-----------------------------------------------| 89 |Jesse Nelson |[@spheromak](https://github.com/spheromak) 90 |AJ Christensen |[@fujin](https://github.com/fujin) 91 |Brad Beam |[@bradbeam](https://github.com/bradbeam) 92 |Kraig Amador |[@bigkraig](https://github.com/bigkraig) 93 |Mark Gibbons |[@mark](https://github.com/markgibbons) 94 95 ## COPYRIGHT 96 97 Copyright 2013-2014, Jesse Nelson 98 99 ## LICENSE 100 101 Like many Chef ecosystem programs, go-chef/chef is licensed under the Apache 2.0 102 License. See the LICENSE file for details. 103 104 Chef is copyright (c) 2008-2014 Chef, Inc. and its various contributors. 105 106 Thanks go out to the fine folks of Opscode and the Chef community for all their 107 hard work.