cookbook 'xmledit', '= 1.2.1'
xmledit
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1.2.1
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Provides a resource and provider for incremental editing of XML files
cookbook 'xmledit', '= 1.2.1', :supermarket
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This cookbook allows incremental editing of XML files. You must include the
default recipe to ensure nokogiri and its dependencies are installed using the
upstream community xml cookbook.
Here be dragons. This is definitely not idempotent, and is not the best way to manage a file in chef. clintoncwolfe has described why you should not use this. Please read his thoughts on the matter.
Specifically, this library cookbooks offers a resource and provider that can be
called by the name xml_edit
. This resource accepts XPath expressions and will
perform the expected action on the very first node found.
Important notes
If no XML nodes match the XPath expression, no actions will be performed. If a
file cannot be found, this provider will raise an error by virtue of::File
raising an error.This cookbook attempts to sidestep resource cloning issues by forcing the
resource name to be something other than a path to a file to edit. This allows
you to perform multiple edits to the same file by giving the resources unique
names and providing the same path attribute value. You may also do a bulk edit,
if you know in advance all the edits that should be happening to a file.Including an XPath expression that is a match against the node's value that
you want to replace (e.g. matching against[text=()=\'false\']
if you want to
replace false with true) means that the underlying file resource will no longer
be defined, vs. having a file resource that was defined but idempotently 'up to
date'. Both styles are possible using this cookbook, depending on the XPath
expressions you provide.
Supported actions
name | description |
---|---|
replace | replaces a target node (and all children) with a new fragment |
append | appends a new XML fragment to a parent target node |
append_if_missing | if target is found, replace with fragment, otherwise append fragment |
remove | remove gets rid of a target node |
bulk | pass a hash of the above actions, do them all and write file out once after |
Supported attributes
These have no default values, and will cause a no-op if they are not specified or don't match a valid file or target.
name | description |
---|---|
path | path to the XML file to edit |
target | an xpath expression for the target node (see action replace and append_if_missing above) |
parent | an xpath expression for the parent of the target node (see actions append and append_if_missing above) |
fragment | a string that will be parsed into an XML fragment, for actions that add or update |
edits | an array of hashes, with each hash containing one or zero keys of: :action , :path , :targent , :parent , or :fragment
|
Checkout nokogiri's documentation on XPath and search to understand the syntax behind target
and parent
attributes.
Examples
Replace false
with true
in a file at /etc/application.xml
containing <config><foo>false</foo></config>
.
xml_edit 'set foo to true' do
path '/etc/application.xml'
target '/config/foo[text()=\'false\']'
fragment 'true '
action :replace
end
xml_edit '/tmp/xmledit_bulk_test.xml' do
edits [
{action: :replace, target: '/foo/bar', fragment: 'xyzzy '},
{action: :append, parent: '/foo', target: '/foo/baz', fragment: 'true '},
{action: :remove, target: '/foo/hideme'},
{action: :append_if_missing, parent: '/foo', target: '/foo/showme', fragment: ' '}
]
action :bulk
end
TODO
- Add an attribute for forcing an error when an xpath expr doesn't match
License
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1.2.1
- Remove comment that was preventing updates ot the file, fixes #9.
1.2.0
- New feature: bulk action with associated
edits
attribute. Pass an array of hashes that describe each edit, using the same parameters as the other actions. See README.md for an example.
1.1.0
- Load namespace in Nokogiri calls (#7)
1.0.7
- Normalize the output of modified XML. Nokogiri seems to be better at parsing files into normalized XML than just writing it out, so we added a very unfortunate temporary file workaround.
1.0.6
- Remove metadata that breaks chef 11 (source and issue url metadata, specifically)
- Add more unit tests and integration tests
- Update logic so that xml_edit resource truly reflects the state of the file resource being updated
1.0.5
- Do not parse a fragment or try to pass :remove action the fragment
1.0.1
- Add the ability to replace or append (action append_if_missing)
- Attempt to strip/format whitespace better when editing
1.0.0
- Rename actions to map better to nokogiri operations
- Implement remove and append actions
- Add missing xml cookbook dependency
0.1.0
- Initial release.
Foodcritic Metric
1.2.1 failed this metric
FC031: Cookbook without metadata file: /tmp/cook/baa213fd83e06a336bd3255d/xmledit/metadata.rb:1
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