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hash_to_xml

Convert a Puppet hash into XML data

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  • 0.0.1 (latest)
released Jul 24th 2019
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WhatsARanjit/hash_to_xml — version 0.0.1 Jul 24th 2019

hash_to_xml

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Functions

Overview

Convert a Puppet hash into XML data.

Functions

hash_to_xml()

Convert a Puppet hash into XML data.

hash_to_xml() given the following data:

$data = {
  '?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?' => false,
  'xml' => {
    'fruit' => 'apple',
    'vegetables' => {
      'green' => 'cucumber',
      'brown' => 'potato'
    },
    'nested' => {
      'one' => {
        'foo' => 'bar',
      },
      'two' => {
        'foo' => 'bar',
      }
    }
  }
}

file { '/tmp/example.xml':
  ensure  => file,
  content => hash_to_xml($data),
}

The file at /tmp/example.xml will contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xml>
  <fruit>apple</fruit>
  <vegetables>
    <green>cucumber</green>
    <brown>potato</brown>
  </vegetables>
  <nested>
    <one>
      <foo>bar</foo>
    </one>
    <two>
      <foo>bar</foo>
    </two>
  </nested>
</xml>

Arguments:

  • data

    Puppet hash of intended XML data. Keys set to strings will be XML values like this:

    'key' => 'value' converts to `value``

    Keys set to hashes create opening and closing tags like this:

    parent => { ... } converts to <parent>...</parent>

    Keys set to false will open but not close like this:

    ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?' => false converts to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    Required

  • indent

    Starting indent in case you want to nest generated XML into other XML.

    Default: 0

  • indent character

    Chracter used for indent. Can be used to choose between tabs, spaces, etc.

    Default: \s

  • indent character count

    The number of indent characters to use. Can be used to decide 4 spaces, 2 tabs, etc.

    Default: 2

Type: rvalue

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