Property `method` of resource `zabbix_api_call` overwrites an existing method

[athreyavc1]

Hi chef-client -v Chef: 13.2.20

Chef Server version is 12.15.6.

Recipe Compile Error in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/zabbix/resources/api_call.rb
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ArgumentError
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Property `method` of resource `zabbix_api_call` overwrites an existing method.

Cookbook Trace:
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  /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/zabbix/resources/api_call.rb:5:in `class_from_file'

Relevant File Content:
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/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/zabbix/resources/api_call.rb:

  1:  actions :call
  2:  default_action :call
  3:
  4:  attribute :server_connection, :kind_of => Hash, :required => true
  5>> attribute :method, :kind_of => [String, Symbol], :required => true
  6:  attribute :parameters, :kind_of => Hash, :required => true
  7:

System Info:
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chef_version=13.2.20
platform=centos
platform_version=7.3.1611
ruby=ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux]
program_name=chef-client worker: ppid=61391;start=16:56:34;
executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client

[athreyavc1]

Checked with previous versions of chef client 13.x same error

[askz]

Same here. Did you managed to resolve the issue?

[athreyavc1]

I made the cookbook working with CentOS 7, it is certainly not a good fix, just that it is working. I am just using this cookbook deploy clients.

changed resource api_call.rb in providers to

action :call do
  Chef::Zabbix.with_connection(new_resource.server_connection) do |connection|
    connection.query(
      :api_method => new_resource.method,
      :params => new_resource.parameters
    )
  end
  new_resource.updated_by_last_action(true)
end

def load_current_resource
  run_context.include_recipe 'zabbix::_providers_common'
  require 'zabbixapi'
end

def validate_parameters(parameters)
  Chef::Log.error("#{parameter} isn't an Hash") unless parameters.is_a?(Hash)
end

Changed resources/api_call.rb to

actions :call
default_action :call

attribute :server_connection, :kind_of => Hash, :required => true
attribute :api_method, :kind_of => [String, Symbol], :required => true
attribute :parameters, :kind_of => Hash, :required => true

Also in templates and many places attributes are called like, node.zabbix.attribute_value This resulted in failure for me on chef client 13.x

changed this to node['zabbix']['attribute_value']

Now the chef converge is working for me.