How to execute curl command in Chef recipe?

Question

I have a curl command which is soap request and with headers like basic auth. I need to implement this curl in Chef recipe for automation.So that every time i execute the chef script ,i see this curl being executed too. Please advice me with a syntax for adding curl command in the chef script.

Answer 1

Couldn't you do this using the http_request resource?

Something like:

http_request 'SOAP request' do
  url "http://www.example.com/example"
  message <xml request>
  action :post
end

Answer 2

You can use bash commands in a chef recipe

bash 'install_something' do
  user 'root'
  cwd '/tmp'
  code <<-EOH
  wget http://www.example.com/tarball.tar.gz
  tar -zxf tarball.tar.gz
  cd tarball
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  EOH
end

Have this example from here: https://docs.chef.io/resource_bash.html. Just call you curl command. Keep in mind that this is not the real Chef way. The bash resource should only be used if there is no other escape.