[chef-dev] overrides attrbiutes can't be read in cookbook/attributes/default.rb ?

[Hui Hu < >]

Hi 

I want to change value of  some attributes according to other attributes in attributes/default.rb.   I found that overrides attrbiutes can't be read in cookbook_name/attributes/default.rb, e.g. 

1) save an override attribute  node.override[:abc] = 'hello' into Chef node before run 'chef-client'
2) in cookbook_name/attributes/default.rb:  Chef::Log.info  "value is #{node[:abc].to_s}" , and upload cookbook
3) run 'sudo chef-client', it prints "value is #<Chef::Node::Attribute:0x0000000438cf58>",  

Is this the expected behaviour ?  

Thanks & Best Regards,

Hui Hu,  Beijing,  China