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lemniscat.plugin.filetransform

A plugin to transform one or more files into a lemniscat workflow

Description

This plugin allows you to transform one or more files into a lemniscat workflow. This plugin replace all attributes in the file by the value of the variables in the lemniscat runtime.

For example, if you have a file config.json with the following content: 

{
  "url": "",
  "port": ""
}
and you have the following variables in your lemniscat workflow: - url: "http://localhost" - port: "8080"

the plugin will transform the file into: 

{
  "url": "http://localhost",
  "port": "8080"
}

Usage

Pre-requisites

In order to use this plugin, you need to add plugin into the required section of your manifest file.

requirements:
  - name: lemniscat.plugin.filetransform
    version: 0.2.0

Transform json file with variables

- task: filetransform
  displayName: 'set json file'
  steps:
    - run
  parameters:
    folderPath: ${{ filepath }}
    fileType: json
    targetFiles: "*.json"

Transform yaml file with variables

- task: filetransform
  displayName: 'set yaml file'
  steps:
    - run
  parameters:
    folderPath: ${{ filepath }}
    fileType: yaml
    targetFiles: "*.yml"

Inputs

Parameters

  • folderPath: The path of the folder where the files to transform are located
  • fileType: The type of the file to transform. It can be json or yaml
  • targetFiles: The pattern of the files to transform. It can be a single file or a pattern like *.json or *.yml

Outputs

No outputs