[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nested node attributes not working as expected when using overrides?

["steve ." < >]

Since failed-run-data.json has it, you could probably write a really
simple Chef handler to dump/deliver node data...

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Torben Knerr 
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> Am 19.10.2012 17:36 schrieb "Daniel DeLeo" 
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>> On Friday, October 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Bryan Baugher wrote:
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>>> I looked and didn't find anything. I have been using nested attributes
>>> for quite some time and haven't had any issues using them in recipes.
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>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Torben Knerr 
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>>>> Waah, really? I hoped I did something wrong. Wouldn't that violate the
>>>> principle of least surprise? Or is it just me who is "surprised" by 
>>>> that...
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>>>> Btw: I'm seeing this pattern in lots of recipes, guess this would be a
>>>> surprise to some of the authors as well.
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>>>> Is this documented anywhere in the Wiki?
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>> Currently, precedence within an attribute level is implemented by order of
>> application. This means that the only safe time to generate a computed 
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>> is in a recipe, since attributes from roles will not have been applied 
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>> We recently fixed a different but related issue, CHEF-1804[0] with an eye
>> towards making this issue (CHEF-2936[1]) easier to resolve; it should be
>> fixed in master in the next couple of weeks. Note that these are 
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>> breaking changes so they will go in Chef 11.0 but not 10.x.
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>> Daniel DeLeo
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>> 0. http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1804
>> 1. http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2936
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> Ah, thanks! CHEF-2936 is exactly what hits me. CHEF-1804 is weird as well,
> I'll try to keep that in the back of my head...
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> As this behaviour is quite counter-intuitive, would you agree that a
> foodcritic rule would make sense here?
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> And a side question: what's the way to dump a node's "resolved" attributes?
> Is it possible via knife? I'm currently doing it via shef on the node...
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> Cheers, Torben