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

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

Maybe before 11.14 is finalized, we should change the whitelist code to use 
.s then? Not sure if thats too big a change for an RC :-/

--Noah

On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Adam Jacob 
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> I lean towards dots as well. Sadly, dots in the search syntax probably 
> won't be forthcoming, and underscores are a terrible separator. 
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> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten 
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> My tooling takes attribute selectors with `.` separators and drills into 
> things accordingly. Because JSON.
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> eg 
> https://github.com/josephholsten/discoteq/blob/master/chef/service.go#L128
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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?
> >
> > --Noah
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