This post follows my previous one, dealing with the reuse of chef providers of chef in mcollective. In the comments Adam Jacob had an interesting word and when I wrote my second agent, to manage package I saw it would be a piece of cake to write a really generic agent, due to the nature of chef resource (and the way to invoke them)

So, this is a generic chef resource mcollective agent, with the associated example client code. It anyway deserves an little explanation; it is not mean to work with a command line invocation. Why ? Because I push quite “complex” data as the resourceactions parameter. The only way I found to make this work from command line is to use eval on the argument, which is no way acceptable. Anyway I hope some people will find this useful.