Method: Puppet::Forge.search

Defined in:
lib/vendor/puppet/forge.rb

.search(term) ⇒ Object

Return a list of module metadata hashes that match the search query. This return value is used by the module_tool face install search, and displayed to on the console.

Example return value:

[

{
  "author"      => "puppetlabs",
  "name"        => "bacula",
  "tag_list"    => ["backup", "bacula"],
  "releases"    => [{"version"=>"0.0.1"}, {"version"=>"0.0.2"}],
  "full_name"   => "puppetlabs/bacula",
  "version"     => "0.0.2",
  "project_url" => "http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-bacula",
  "desc"        => "bacula"
}

]



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# File 'lib/vendor/puppet/forge.rb', line 28

def self.search(term)
  server = Puppet.settings[:module_repository].sub(/^(?!https?:\/\/)/, 'http://')
  Puppet.notice "Searching #{server} ..."
  request = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/modules.json?q=#{URI.escape(term)}")
  response = repository.make_http_request(request)

  case response.code
  when "200"
    matches = PSON.parse(response.body)
  else
    raise RuntimeError, "Could not execute search (HTTP #{response.code})"
    matches = []
  end

  matches
end