Data Bag Id InvalidDataBagItemId vs ValidationFailed

chef-solo-data-bag-name.md

I started out with rails+emacs as a a data_bag name:

cat data_bags/sputnik_profiles/rails+emacs.json 
{
    "id": "rails+emacs",
    "packages": [
        "rails",
        "emacs-goodies-el",
        "emacs23"
    ]
}

chef-solo -j drive_this_train.json

FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::InvalidDataBagItemID: Data Bag items must have an id matching /^[\-[:alnum:]_]+$/, you gave: "rails+emacs"

So I renamed the file, but forgot to rename the id:

mv data_bags/sputnik_profiles/rails+emacs.json data_bags/sputnik_profiles/rails-emacs.json 

chef-solo -j drive_this_train.json

FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed: Data Bag Items must contain a Hash or Mash!

I futzed around with trying to make valid json that resulted in Hash or Mash.... before I found my error.

head -4 cache/chef-stacktrace.out 
Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed: Data Bag Items must contain a Hash or Mash!
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.10/lib/chef/data_bag_item.rb:107:in `raw_data='
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.10/lib/chef/data_bag_item.rb:160:in `from_hash'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.10/lib/chef/data_bag_item.rb:202:in `load'

data_bag_item.rb:107 -

      unless new_data.respond_to?(:[]) && new_data.respond_to?(:keys)
        raise Exceptions::ValidationFailed, "Data Bag Items must contain a Hash or Mash!"
      end

I wish the error was Chef::Exceptions::InvalidDataBagItemID rather than the Hash or Mash Validation error.