dbohdan / tcl-augeas

Tcl bindings for Augeas

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This C extension for the Tcl interpreter provides bindings for Augeas, a configuration editing tool.

Installation

The current version of tcl-augeas is known to build and pass the tests with Augeas 0.10 through 1.8 on the following operating systems:

  • CentOS 6.9
  • CentOS 7.4
  • Debian 8.10
  • FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE
  • OpenBSD 6.2
  • openSUSE Leap 42.3
  • Ubuntu 12.04.5
  • Ubuntu 16.04.4

Step 1. Build dependencies

To build tcl-augeas you need a C compiler, make, pkg-config, and the development packages for Augeas and libxml2. Below are the commands to install these on several operating systems.

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y build-essential libaugeas-dev pkg-config tcl-dev

Fedora/CentOS

sudo yum install -y augeas-devel gcc make pkgconfig tcl-devel

openSUSE

sudo zypper install -y augeas-devel gcc make pkgconfig tcl-devel

FreeBSD

sudo pkg install -y augeas pkgconf tcl86

OpenBSD

sudo pkg_add augeas

Step 2. Building and installing tcl-augeas

Clone this repository with Git or download and extract a tarball. In the resulting directory run

./configure
make test
sudo make install

API

Standard API

The commands tcl-augeas provides mirror the C public API of Augeas.

  • ::augeas::init root ?loadpath? ?flags? -> token
  • ::augeas::close token -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::save token -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::load token -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::get token path -> value
  • ::augeas::set token path value -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::setm token base sub value -> number of nodes changed
  • ::augeas::span token base -> {filename {label_start label_end} {value_start value_end} {span_start span_end}}
  • ::augeas::insert token path label ?before? -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::mv token src dst -> (nothing)
  • ::augeas::rm token path -> number of nodes removed
  • ::augeas::rename token src lbl -> number of nodes renamed
  • ::augeas::match token path -> list of matches

init flags

See the numerical values for aug_flags in augeas.h. For example, AUG_ENABLE_SPAN is 1 << 7 or 128.

Errors

Besides missing proc arguments, tcl-augeas returns an error when

  • An invalid token is given to any command that expects a token;
  • init receives a non-integer for flags;
  • init fails to create an Augeas object;
  • save can't save changes to disk;
  • load fails to load data from disk (but not when it partially succeeds);
  • get path matches multiple or no nodes;
  • set path matches multiple nodes;
  • setm changes no nodes;
  • span is called, but spans aren't enabled (through the flag AUG_ENABLE_SPAN or /augeas/span);
  • span receives an invalid path;
  • insert can't create a sibling label;
  • rm receives an invalid path;
  • rm changes no nodes;
  • rename receives an invalid path;
  • rename changes no nodes;
  • match receives an invalid path;
  • An internal error occurs in Augeas.

OO wrapper

An optional object-oriented API wrapper is available in the package augeas::oo. It requires either TclOO or Snit 2. The former ships with Tcl 8.6; the latter is part of Tcllib. If both are available TclOO is used.

  • ::augeas::oo::new root ?loadpath? ?flags? -> objName
  • $objName destroy -> (nothing)
  • $objName save -> (nothing)
  • $objName load -> (nothing)
  • $objName get path -> value
  • $objName set path value -> (nothing)
  • $objName setm base sub value -> number of nodes changed
  • $objName span base -> {filename {label_start label_end} {value_start value_end} {span_start span_end}}
  • $objName insert path label ?before? -> (nothing)
  • $objName mv src dst -> (nothing)
  • $objName rm path -> number of nodes removed
  • $objName rename src lbl -> number of nodes renamed
  • $objName match path -> list of matches

FAQ

How do I reload the whole tree or part of it?

::augeas::rm $token /files ;# or /files/path
::augeas::load $token

How do I see the error message for the latest error?

::augeas::get $token /augeas/error

License

MIT. See the file LICENSE.

configure.ac, Makefile.in, pkgIndex.tcl.in are derived from the Sample TEA Extension. tclconfig/tcl.m4 comes from the tclconfig repository. See the file tea-license.terms for their license.

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Tcl bindings for Augeas

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