Chef search result return as Hash

[aaronfeng]

Not sure if this is intentional, but I believe normal Chef search returns a different type of object (Hashie Mash I believe). I have several cookbooks that are calling methods that don't exists on Hash but exists on the normal Chef search result object. What's the best way to handle this?

[tobami]

That is a good question. You notice that when trying to access a value using a symbolic link instead of single quotes: it only works with a Mash.

[aaronfeng]

There are definitely issues like using the dot notation will also bomb, ie, foo.bar.
Or foo.attribute?(:bar).

[arr-dev]

👍

[michaelglass]

I don't have a lot of experience with chef-client. Can you give some example queries and their results? (e.g. write some simple tests for this enhancement?)

[e0da]

It's actually not a Hashie::Mash. It's a Mash, but it's Chef's own ::Mash implementation. I couldn't tell you why they did this. Worse, it doesn't work like a Hashie::Mash. It just has the same name. Just a heads up for when you start digging around in there and this gives you headaches.