Puppet resource details using http api or puppetdb api

[Riju Francis]

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?

Thanks
Riju

[Nan Liu]

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

[Nan Liu]

Bla, have to read more carefully since subject makes a difference here, if you want to search puppet db use (which also supplies a puppet face):

https://github.com/dalen/puppet-puppetdbquery

Nan