Accessing nested mappings in a yam file #1242
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…t how to access nested mappings. When I read the code it used keys.shift to traverse the yaml object. I tried changing to an array and voila I was able to access nested mappings. I wanted to document my findngs and suggest an update to inspec.io but couldn't find a place to contact someone for the suggestion.
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This is related to #875. Thanks for adapting the readme until we've fixed the its implementation. |
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Please sign-off your work as described in https://github.com/chef/inspec/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-certification-of-origin-dco |
Signed-off-by: Chris Wessells <cwessells@silvervue.com>
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Thanks @chriswessells for this docs improvement! |
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I spent hours following the example in the documentation. When trying to access the nested mappings I received the error "unknown method ". When I read the code from lib/utils/object_traversal.rb I found where keys.shift was used to traverse the object. So I changed from the dotted notation to an array and voila I accessed the nested mapping and could easily verify my tests. I use rubocop for linting so it complained about the [] notation. I updated it to the %w() notation and now pass rubocop linting and my tests were failing correctly but now passing accurately.