Registering Smart-Proxy fails on initial run by using an outdated value as URL

[frzb]

Given this ressource at recipes/proxy_register.rb:

foreman_smartproxy node['foreman-proxy']['registered_name'] do
  base_url node['foreman-proxy']['foreman_base_url']
  consumer_key node['foreman-proxy']['oauth_consumer_key']
  consumer_secret node['foreman-proxy']['oauth_consumer_secret']
  effective_user node['foreman-proxy']['oauth_effective_user']
  url node['foreman-proxy']['registered_proxy_url']
  only_if { node['foreman-proxy']['register'] }
  retries 3
  retry_delay 5
  action :create

This resource currently can not succeed on the first run because url is referring to a derived attribute which is changed after compile time.

Looking at attributes/foreman_proxy.rb shows that:

default['foreman-proxy']['registered_proxy_url'] = "http#{'s' if node['foreman-proxy']['ssl']}://#{node['foreman-proxy']['registered_name']}:#{registered_port}" referred by url is derived from:

default['foreman-proxy']['registered_name'] = node['fqdn']

This node attribute node[fqdn] is changed by the included hostname cookbook during the (initial) run.

I guess a possible solution could be to leverage lazy evaluation of attributes.

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