Help getting started writing charms

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Hi. I’m trying to write a charm for Rocket.Chat (just for learning purposes) using the snap layer.

So far I did charm create rocketchat, I edited the layer.yaml file to be:

includes:
  - layer:basic
  - layer:snap
options:
  snap:
      rocketchat-server:
      channel: stable
      devmode: false
      jailmode: false
      dangerous: false
      classic: false
      revision: null

I edited metadata.yaml to be:

name: rocketchat
summary: <Fill in summary here>
maintainer: David Coronel <David.Coronel@davecorelaptop>
description: |
  <Multi-line description here>
tags:
  # Replace "misc" with one or more whitelisted tags from this list:
  # https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/authors-charm-metadata
  - misc
subordinate: false

I ran charm build and I juju deployed it to my localhost Juju cluster. The install hook fails and I get the following error:

unit-rocketchat-0: 16:20:00 ERROR unit.rocketchat/0.juju-log Hook error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-rocketchat-0/.venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/charms/reactive/init.py”, line 72, in main
hookenv._run_atstart()
File “/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-rocketchat-0/.venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/charmhelpers/core/hookenv.py”, line 1206, in _run_atstart
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-rocketchat-0/charm/reactive/snap.py”, line 61, in install
supported_archs = snap_opts.pop(‘supported-architectures’, None)
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘pop’

I see some mentions of undocumented info in the snap layer at README.md - layer-snap - [no description]

Am I doing this right? Am I at least going in the right direction for someone who would want to charm Rocket.Chat?

Thanks!

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It’s mostly correct but it looks like you have an indentation issue in your layer.yaml with the name of the snap:

 includes:
   - layer:basic
   - layer:snap
 options:
   snap:
-      rocketchat-server:
+    rocketchat-server:
       channel: stable
       devmode: false
       jailmode: false
       dangerous: false
       classic: false
       revision: null

The indentation there is important to ensure that the group of options is properly associated with the name of the snap to be installed.

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Thanks! That was it.

4

Here’s what I did so far: https://github.com/davecore82/charm-test-rocketchat

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5

Great work m8!

Did you use the tutorials posted here to get started or did you pick it up yourself?

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Great work! Do shout out if there’s anything else that pops up.

As your confidence grows, feel free to push charms to the charm store!

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I used the tutorials posted here. I thought they were very useful. Thanks!

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