Can't use Chef::Node::ImmutableMash in "attributes" attribute in the machine resource

[bsteinfeld]

For example:

attributes/default.rb:

node["people"]["bob"] = "Bobbert"
node["people"]["stanley"] = "Stanbert"

recipes/example.rb

machine "myserver" do
  attributes node["people"]
end

example.rb will raise the following exception:

Chef::Exceptions::ImmutableAttributeModification: machine[myserver] (example::example line 3) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ImmutableAttributeModification: Node attributes are read-only when you do not specify which precedence level to set. To set an attribute use code like `node.default["key"] = "value"'

In order to get the code to work you currently need to convert the node["people"] Chef::Node::ImmutableMash to a hash:

recipes/example.rb

machine "myserver" do
  attributes node["people"].to_hash
end

[jkeiser]

Is this still a problem?

[hntd187]

@jkeiser I just tried this and received the same error.

[jkeiser]

Thanks! I'll look into it. You tried with the latest chef-metal, yes?

[hntd187]

Yes sir.