Method: Chef::Node::Attribute#read

Defined in:
lib/chef/node/attribute.rb

#read(*path) ⇒ Object Also known as: dig

method-style access to attributes (has to come after the prepended ImmutablizeHash)



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# File 'lib/chef/node/attribute.rb', line 454

def read(*path)
  if path[0].nil?
    Chef::Log.warn "Calling node.read() without any path argument is very slow, probably a bug, and should be avoided"
    merged_attributes.read(*path) # re-merges everything, slow edge case
  else
    self[path[0]] unless path[0].nil? # force deep_merge_cache key construction if necessary
    deep_merge_cache.read(*path)
  end
end