Regex question

System

Hi,
We're using Open Deploy 5.6 on W2K. The upgrade from 5.0 made a change in deployment information stream format. We have a script that reads the information so it can take action based on a file deployment. The new format means the old regex searching for a file deployment doesn't work anymore. Here are the two lines of code:
if($line =~ m|<log_element .* response="Sending \[([^\]]*)\]|){
my $file = $1;

It works when we use the old-style format, meaning it obtains the name of the file being deployed when a line like this shows up:
<log_element target="" action="0" date="1051756634" result="4" response=" Sending directory [.] -- 225 entries

But the new style lines look like this:
<item path="21977-1.jpg" type="FILE" reason="missing-in-dest" action="NEW" status="COMPLETED" statusDetail="" srcDir="Y:\default\main\Custom\WORKAREA\development\images" trgDir="F:\Content"/>

How can I update the regex to match this new format? I'm not entirely sure of everything the old one was doing. Thanks,

David

Adam Stoller

First, I recommend that you look at parsing the information with an XML parsing module rather than using regex's - it makes it much easier to deal with changes in the order of attributes and such.

I'm not sure (haven't looked) but it's possible that the IWXML.pm module (in IWODHOME/solutions/perl/) *might* have been updated for this. If not, please file a request with Support for this.

Alternatively, you can specify that OpenDeploy should continue to use the 'log' format rather than the 'manifest' format - there's a setting in the odbase.xml for this (don't recall what it is off-hand - but you should be able to see it in the odbase.xml and it should be mentioned in the documentation)

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)