Can we download cookbooks?

[afiune]

As a chef-analyze developer,
I need to be able to download cookbooks from a Chef Server,
So I am able to analyze them and generate reports for our customers.

Acceptance Criteria

Create code that shows that it is possible to download a foo cookbook from a Chef Server.

[afiune]

I have diagnosed that there is no such functionality available at the community
repo https://github.com/go-chef/chef, which means that we will have to code
it ourselves. I am going to use this issue to track such work but in the meantime,
I have found a bug that is a blocker at this point, I have already created an issue
and worked on the solution:

GH Issue: go-chef/chef#112
GH PR: go-chef/chef#113

[MarkGibbons]

I'll take a look at actually downloading cookbook files in the go-chef api.
I merged your change as v0.0.2 of the go-chef api.

[afiune]

@MarkGibbons thank you so much for merging that PR! Add chef, we are starting to work heavily with the Go language and therefore you will have a bunch of new features and bug fixes coming your way. For example, I already coded the cookbook download so I can easily contribute back to go-chef, what do you think about that?

[MarkGibbons]

Saves me a bunch of work. That would be a great addition.

One of my concerns is making sure the chef infra api documentation matches what actually happens and that the go-chef api matches the documentation. If you verify things actually work the way the code says it does and update the doc that will be a huge help.

[MarkGibbons]

One of the things I'm trying to do in order to do better testing is to spin up a real chef server and run the api against the real thing. It's surprising how many things turn up when testing against the real thing.

Thanks for the PRs and issues.

[tas50]

@MarkGibbons there's some work on the chef server to spin up test environments. We'll see where that goes and we'd love to do whatever we can to make sure that sort of functionality is available for testing this library.

[afiune]

@MarkGibbons Here you have it go-chef/chef#115