[chef-dev] Re: Re: How to represent nested attributes

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, July 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

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> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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> > Something that could maybe do with a bit of standardization. The issue is 
> > given some nested hashes, how do you indicate a specific key. The 
> > attribute declaration and the new attribute whitelists use a "/" 
> > separator, most knife command line options use a "." and partial searches 
> > use none and require a real array. Thoughts?
And ohai on the command line uses a slash I think.
  
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> Oh, and another another comes to mind, search itself uses "_"s, though in a 
> lossy conversion.
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> --Noah  
This annoys me to no end. I don’t really have a favorite. Both “/“ and “.” 
show up in actual attributes (that’ll be true for any character we pick 
though) so in any case we need some form of escaping or a way to specify a 
real array that isn’t terrible on the command line, though I think having a 
separator character is reasonable to make the 80+% use case less cumbersome.

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Daniel DeLeo