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

incorrect

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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