Transformer

Transform information before using it

Description

The parameter "transformers" can be used by any stage definitions as "source", "condition", or "target". A "transformers" contains a list of transformer. Each kind transformer rule apply a string manipulation like adding or removing characters. Depending on the stage, a "transformers" block achieves different objectives.

source

Source returns information modified by a list of transformers

condition

A condition receives information from the source then modifies that value using transformers before using it in the resource.

target

A target receives information from the source then modifies that value with the transformers rule before using the resource.

Parameters

Name

Default

Description

replacer

-

Replace a string with another one, more here

replacers

-

A list of Replacer

addprefix

-

Add prefix to the value

addsuffix

-

Add suffix to the value

trimprefix

-

Remove prefix to the value

trimsuffix

-

Remove suffix to the value

find

-

Search for a string value using regular expression and then return its value exist

findsubmatch

-

Search for a substring using regular expression and then return its content, more here

semverinc

-

Bump semantic version, accept a comma separated list of ["major","minor","patch"]

Replacer

A replacer rule modifies the information by replacing the "from" value by the "to" value.

NameRequiredDefaultDescription

from

-

"from" value defines the string that will be replaced

to

-

"to" value defines the string that we want to have

FindSubMatch

A findsubmatch rule captures the desired information by applying pattern as a regexp and using captureindex value as the index for the capture to return (defaults to 0 which returns all submatches).

NameRequiredDefaultDescription

pattern

-

pattern value defines the regular expression to apply

captureindex

-

-

captureindex value defines the index of the capture to return. Note that the default value 0 returns all submatches, and individual submatch indexes start at 1.

Example

The findsubmatch below will return the submatch captured with (.*?):

updatecli.yaml
sources:
  default:
    name: "Get latest jenkins weekly version"
    kind: jenkins
    transformers:
      - addprefix: "alpha-"
      - addsuffix: "-jdk11"
      - trimsuffix: "-jdk11"
      - trimprefix: "alpha-"
      - replacer:
          from: "-jdk11"
          to: "-jdk15"
      - replacers:
          - from: "-jdk15"
            to: "-jdk17"
      - findsubmatch:
          pattern: '"(.*?):(.*)'
          captureindex: 1
      - semverinc: "major,minor"
      - find: "2.234.(.*)$"
    spec:
      release: weekly
targets:
  targetID:
    name: "Update file file"
    kind: file
    spec:
      file: TODO
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