[chef] Re: JSON versus ARRAY

[Ulises Ramirez-Roche < >]

They're both hashes(key-value pairs), only in different languages. Use 
whatever you like. Attributes, however, are resolved by precedence, so where 
you put them matters. Wiki has more details.

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On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:12 AM, 
<
 >
 wrote:

> The site cookbook for mongodb has the following snippet of code in the 
> readme
> file:
> 
> <quote>
> Most importantly you need to define what collections should be sharded by
> setting the attribute mongodb[:sharded_collections]:
> {
>  "mongodb": {
>    "sharded_collections": {
>      "test.addressbook": "name",
>      "mydatabase.calendar": "date"
>    }
>  }
> }
> </quote>
> 
> Actually, I added this into my recipe via the attributes file using a 
> different
> format:
> 
> default[:mongodb][:sharded_collections]["test4.addressbook"] = "name"
> default[:mongodb][:sharded_collections]["mydatabase.calendar"] = "date"
> 
> That methodology seemed to make more sense.  To add this into the attributes
> file in that format.  They are attributes, after all.
> 
> My question to the mailing list, what would you consider the standard and
> recommended way to apply these attributes?  Would you use JSON or an ARRAY,
> which file would you place them in, and how would you get them uploaded into
> chef.      Not what is "possible", but rather "what is best practice".
> 
> Thanks.