Ohai Chefs,
given an application cookbook trying to installing Java 7:
```sample-app/recipes/default.rb
node.set['java']['jdk_version'] = "7"
include_recipe "java"
```
It will always install Java version 6 because the node attributes from the Java cookbook have already been interpolated when the sample-app recipe is evaluated:
```java/attributes/default.rb
...
default['java']['jdk_version'] = '6'
...
when "debian"
...
default['java']['openjdk_packages'] = ["openjdk-#{node['java']['jdk_version']}-jdk", "default-jre-headless"]
...
```
The only way to "correctly" pass in the java/jdk_version attribute is from external, e.g. via environment files or dna.json etc... That works, but actually I consider the JDK version an implementation detail of the application cookbook and don't want to expose it via the above files.
How can you deal with that?
Is there a possibility to re-evaluate the attributes file before you `include_recipe` it? And would this be a good idea at all?!?
Any ideas or workarounds?
Cheers,
Torben