[chef] Chef solo setting default values

[Jan Bares < >]

Hi,

Can someone help me to understand this strange behaviour? As you can see 
bellow, value of node[:test_value2]["name"] magically disappears after I 
reference it for the first time. It should print:
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: [jan] value, value.
But it prints:
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: [jan] value, .

If this is known limitation of Chef, how can I reuse configuration data 
without retyping them?

Thanks, Jan

attributes/default.rb
=====================
default[:test1] = "test"
default[:test_value1] = default[:test1]

default[:test2] = {"name" => "value"}
default[:test_value2] = default[:test2]

recipes/default.rb
==================
Chef::Log.info("[jan] #{node[:test_value1]}, #{node[:test_value1]}.")
Chef::Log.info("[jan] #{node[:test_value2]["name"]}, 
#{node[:test_value2]["name"]}.")

Output
======
[2012-08-29T09:25:42+02:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.12.0 ***
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to 
["recipe[soa::default]
"] from JSON
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[soa::default]]
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Run List expands to [soa::default]
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for prgsoa001
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: [jan] test, test.
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: [jan] value, .
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.010143 seconds
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2012-08-29T09:25:43+02:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

As you can see, the

Jan Bareš
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