[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: FC001, attributes as strings vs symbols

[Jay Feldblum < >]

Phil,

That's correct. Under the hood, it's all strings.

The symbol and method syntaxes are just a small bit of sugar over the underlying string syntax. But all of the node attribute keys are kept as strings internally. And all of the methods that fetch keys or iterate over the elements give the keys as strings, not as symbols (and certainly not as methods).

Cheers,

Jay

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Phil Dibowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

My understanding is that because of the way that attribute code works, if you
use symbols to access attributes, it actually converts them to a string before
doing a symbol look-up on them.

Which... ya know... works and all, but probably isn't what you intended.

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