Chef/Deprecations/ResourceUsesProviderBaseMethod

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Enabled by default	Supports autocorrection	Target Chef Version
Enabled	No	All Versions

The Resource.provider_base allows the developer to specify within a resource a module to load the resource’s provider from. Instead, the provider should call provides to register itself, or the resource should call provider to specify the provider to use.

Examples

# bad
provider_base ::Chef::Provider::SomethingSomething

Configurable attributes

Name	Default value	Configurable values
Version Added	5.7.0	String
Include	`*/libraries/.rb` `*/resources/.rb`	Array

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