Unable to stub partial_search for chefspec

Question

I'm writing a cookbook that runs a partial search to find an attribute on other nodes. My chefspec test is failing with error ERROR: Connection refused connecting to localhost:443. The search is instantiated as below:

describe 'my_recipe::default' do
  let(:test1_node) do
    stub_node('test1.com', platform: 'redhat', version: '6.3') do |node|
      node.set['my_recipe']['id'] = 101
      node.set['chef_environment'] = 'production'
    end
  end

  let(:test2_node) do
    stub_node('test2.com', platform: 'redhat', version: '6.3') do |node|
      node.set['my_recipe']['id'] = 102
      node.set['chef_environment'] = 'production'
    end
  end

  before do
    stub_search("node", "my_recipe:* AND chef_environment:production").and_return([])
  end
  let(:chef_run) do
    ChefSpec::Runner.new do |node|
      env = Chef::Environment.new
      env.name 'production'

      node.stub(:chef_environment).and_return(env.name)
      Chef::Environment.stub(:load).and_return(env)
    end.converge(described_recipe)
  end
  it 'updates the file' do
    stub_search("node", "my_recipe:* AND chef_environment:production").and_return([test1_node,test2_node])
    expect(chef_run).to create_template(/conf/my_recipe.cfg")
  end
end

Am I stubbing this incorrectly?

Answer 1

stub_search is for stubbing Chef Search. Partial search is supported by a cookbook and therefore not part of Chef core. Partial search uses a different API endpoint and uses POST instead of GET for the protocol.

You'll need to stub Chef's API calls to partial search. stub_search will not work.