Add test to verify "auto-inflation" of JSON into Ruby classes

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/spec/unit/json_compat_spec.rb b/spec/unit/json_compat_spec.rb
index aa688c0791..674e2ae17a 100644
--- a/spec/unit/json_compat_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/json_compat_spec.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ require File.expand_path('../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
 require 'chef/json_compat'
 
 describe Chef::JSONCompat do
+
+  describe "with JSON containing an existing class" do
+    let(:json){'{"json_class": "Chef::Role"}'}
+    it "returns an instance of the class instead of a Hash" do
+      Chef::JSONCompat.from_json(json).class.should eq Chef::Role
+    end
+  end
+
   describe "with a file with 1000 or less nested entries" do
     before(:all) do
       @json = IO.read(File.join(CHEF_SPEC_DATA, 'big_json.json'))