dependency ridley deprecated for external use

[facastagnini]

Ridley is the HTTP Client API for Berkshelf. It is supported for that purpose, but for all external purposes its use is deprecated. Chef users should use the Chef::ServerAPI class in the chef gem.

Source berkshelf/ridley@1b41f82

[facastagnini]

example berkshelf/berkshelf#1719

[majormoses]

sigh first we rewrite it from chef/rest -> ridley and now they are deprecating ridley external support. From what I read here it is still under heavy development effort so I am hesitant to change it yet again to something unstable as the only issue I am aware of with the current plugin is a handful of warnings.

I need to think about this and maybe ask a question or two in the chef slack channels tomorrow about this.

[facastagnini]

ha, I wasn't aware of #25 ... I will try to help you once you make a decision.

[majormoses]

I have raised an issue chef-boneyard/chef-api#62 to see where they are at with the stability of that project. Feel free to chime in there as well.

[majormoses]

uggh they have archived the repo so that would indicate we really need to get off it so while I have not yet heard back I am very tempted to say lets make make the move.

[majormoses]

That being said there is very little going on in that repo, bugs, old PRs that have not been reviewed.

I really don't know what the best course of action is. I will try to reach out to some folks at chef sometime next week.

[jfineberg]

Any update on this? I'm feeling quite a bit of pain from #29 and this as well.

[majormoses]

Oh man this is bad looks like chef-api has now been archived as well, we need to find a replacement. I will try bringing this up in some chef slack channels

[majormoses]

I have posted this in the community slack: https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C0M1NGZE3/p1541120574718400

[majormoses]

So I just confirmed with Tim there is no official api, I am gonna open an issue and ping him so we can poke people about what we are supposed to do.

[majormoses]

So per chef/chef-server#1587 (comment) we should use Chef::ServerAPI or Chef::HTTP

[majormoses]

Seems Chef::ServerAPI is preferable as this is what is used in the client

[majormoses]

If anyone wants to take a crack at this we now have a path forward.