Feature Request: Support matchpattern in the file kind with some dynamism

[v1v]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I want do update all the given files that contain a match and avoid failing if no match

Solution you'd like

targets:
  update-files:
    name: "Update files (GCP/AWS)"
    sourceid: latestVersion
    scmid: githubConfig
    kind: file
    spec:
      searchpattern: "*.yaml"
      ifmatch: "true"
      matchpattern: '(IMAGE_.+): "platform-(.+)-([0-9]+)"'
      replacepattern: '$1: "platform-$2-{{ source "latestVersion" }}"'

Alternatives you've considered

Use the explicit list of files:

spec:
  files:
    - file_1.yaml
    - file_2.yaml

However, it requires to keep the list of files, while searchpattern could help with finding files that follow a pattern to run the replace if a match.

However, searchpattern might match files that don't have the matchpattern therefore the target step failed.

Anything else?

No response

[olblak]

Could you use a condition before the target where the condition checks if the those files are detected?
If the condition is not passing, then the target is skipped
Something like

conditions:
  default:
    name: Test none matching update
    kind: file
    spec:
      searchpattern: true
      file: "data/*.yaml"
      matchpattern: 'version: (\d*).(\d*).(\d*)'

targets:
  default:
    name: Test none matching update
    kind: file
    spec:
      searchpattern: true
      file: "data/*.yaml"
      matchpattern: 'version: (\d*).(\d*).(\d*)'
      replacepattern: "version: 1.2.3"

[olblak]

Something similar is possible with the yaml plugin

conditions:
  default:
    name: Test none matching update
    kind: yaml
    spec:
      searchpattern: true
      file: "data/*.yaml"
      key: "$.version"
      keyonly: true

targets:
  default:
    name: Test none matching update
    kind: yaml
    spec:
      searchpattern: true
      file: "data/*.yaml"
      key: "$.version"
      value: "1.2.3"

[v1v]

Could you use a condition before the target where the condition checks if the those files are detected?

The list of files can be quite different, so in case of a match then I need the change otherwise do nothing. IIUC, the condition will not work with a dynamic set of files with the match and pass them to the action, or that's also a possibility?

Something similar is possible with the yaml plugin

I've seen that with the yaml plugin , wonder if the files could honour something similar.

[olblak]

The file plugin also supports "files" so you can specify different rules