[chef] xml_edit resource, was: WARNING for JBoss AS7 users

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Bryan Berry 
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 wrote:
> If you use JBoss AS 7.1.1 along with Chef, you should know that JBoss AS 7
> will change the contents of your main XML configuration file on disk by
> removing comments, adding or removing line breaks, and reordering
> attributes.

I was thinking about this today in regard to the file_edit resource
discussion on the chef-dev list. I thought I remembered having
problems managing XML configuration files due to similar behavior in
the past.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Walter Heck 
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> I'm from the puppet-world and totally just lurking here (so forgive me
> if I'm blabbering :) ), but for Puppet there is augeas, which is a
> standalone tool that can parse configuration files into machine
> readable trees. This allows you to change/check the value of a
> configuration parameter unrelated to where in the config file it
> actually is. If i'm not mistaking this should solve your problem if
> you can find a way to use it in Chef? http://augeas.net/

It would be interesting to have an xml_edit/json_edit sort of resource
for when we care about the content of the data more than the
formatting. That would do the same thing and would be simple enough.