Bug 1209885

Summary: Properties lens doesn't like multi-line where first line has no value
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Luca Gioppo <gioppoluca>
Component: augeasAssignee: Dominic Cleal <dcleal>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.6CC: gioppoluca, huzhan, leiwang, wshi
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Fixed In Version: augeas-1.0.0-10.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: .properties (Java-style) files containing a multi-line value that begins with a blank line Consequence: Augeas was unable to parse these files Fix: Augeas' lens (parser) has been fixed to accept an empty starting line Result: Augeas can now parse these files
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: 1209923 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-07-22 05:41:20 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Luca Gioppo 2015-04-08 12:18:58 UTC 
as described here:
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/issues/110#issuecomment-41021392

Problem persist in 1.0.0-7.el6 but the fix is in augeas 1.2.0.

A port of the fix is needed for allowing tools like puppet and others to manage tomcat properties files that has this behaviour.
Thanks
Luca
Comment 2 Dominic Cleal 2015-04-08 12:56:14 UTC 
Fixed in 491df810
Comment 3 Hu Zhang 2015-04-09 09:39:12 UTC 
Problem persists in the latest 6.7.0 errata build: augeas-1.0.0-9.el6.
Also check the fix 491df810, and it works well.
Comment 5 Hu Zhang 2015-05-05 06:00:13 UTC 
Verified with augeas-1.0.0-10.el6

Steps to verify:
# augtool
augtool> set /augeas/load/Properties/lens Properties.lns
augtool> set /augeas/load/Properties/incl[last()+1] /tmp/test.properties
augtool> load
augtool> print /files/tmp/test.properties/
/files/tmp/test.properties
/files/tmp/test.properties/tomcat.util.scan.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip = " < multi > "

Works as expected. So fixed.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 05:41:20 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1256.html