yamlex 1.0.11

Command-line tool to simplify development of Dynatrace Extensions with big YAML

Yamlex

The yamlex command-line tool is here to assist you in development of an oversized extension.yaml, when working with Dynatrace 2.0 Extensions.

It can split your original extension.yaml into carefully structured parts, which are easier to work with. It can then assembe the extension.yaml back from the individual parts using the join command.

The Extension Framework only cares about the final assembled extension.yaml. Any extension would be considered invalid without it. However, it is recommended to commit both the individual parts and the assembled extension.yaml file into the code repository of your extension, because individual parts are your "code" and the assembled file is your artifact.

With yamlex, your development workflow changes in such a way that you only modify the individual parts and never really touch the artificial extension.yaml. Before you build the extension, you run yamlex join to assemble the parts into the main file.

Important: you don't need yamlex to develop Dynatrace Extensions. It's only here to simplify the work when it comes to really big extensions.

Installation

pip install yamlex

Usage

Assemble extension.yaml from parts

# Normal call
$ yamlex join

# Shorthand
$ yamlex j

# More options
$ yamlex join --source extension/src --target extension/extension.yaml --force

# Create "dev" version of extension.yaml with 'custom:' prefix in its name
$ yamlex j --dev

# Join yaml and bump version in version.properties before assembling final file
$ yamles j --bump

# Help message
$ yamlex join --help
 Usage: yamlex join [OPTIONS]                                                          
                                                                                       
 Join YAML files into a single file.                                                   
                                                                                       
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --source     -s    DIRECTORY  Path to directory where split YAML source files are   │
│                               stored. [default: source or src/source]               │
│ --target     -t    FILE       Path for target extension.yaml file that will be      │
│                               assembled from parts. [default:                       │
│                               extension/extension.yaml or                           │
│                               src/extension/extension.yaml]                         │
│ --dev        -d               Prefix extension name with 'custom:' and use explicit │
│                               version.                                              │
│ --bump       -b               Bump version in the version.properties file.          │
│ --multiline  -m               Non YAML files are embedded as multiline strings.     │
│                               [default: True]                                       │
│ --version    -v    TEXT       Explicitly set the version to use during assembly or  │
│                               bump process. [default: None]                         │
│ --force      -f               Overwrite the files even if they were created         │
│                               manually.                                             │
│ --comment    -c    TEXT       Comment to add at the top of the YAML. [default:      │
│                               This file was generated by yamlex]                    │
│ --verbose                     Enable verbose output.                                │
│ --quiet                       Disable any informational output. Only errors.        │
│ --help                        Show this message and exit.                           │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

When assembling, the join command will avoid overwriting a manually created extension.yaml file. The way it detects that the file is manually created is by checking whether the file contains the following comment: generated by yamlex.

In order to overwrite this safety check, you can launch the join command with the --force flag.

Folder structure

The way yamlex assembles the extension.yaml from parts is by parsing the --source directory.

Example structure of an extension:

my-extension/
├── extension/
│   └── extension.yaml
├── source/
│   ├── metrics/
│   │   ├── +account_metrics/
│   │   │   ├── -my.account.storage.yaml
│   │   │   └── -my.account.size.yaml
│   │   └── my.availability.yaml
│   ├── sqlOracle/
│   │   └── index.yaml
│   └── index.yaml
└── activation.json

Here:

• my-extension/source/ is a --source directory.
• my-extension/extension/extension.yaml is a --target file.

For each level of directories within the given --source folder:

• If index.yaml is found, its content is taken as-is into the current level.
• If any other <name>.yaml is found, its content is placed as-is into the field of the current level.
• If <folder> is found, we parse its content and place it in the field called .

Couple of additional details:

• If any file or folder on some inside a directory has a name that starts with -, then this whole directory is considered to be an array field.
• Folders that start with + symbol are considered to be meta-grouping folders and files from them are treated as if they are not in those folder bur rather exist on the current level.

(optional) Enable YAML validation and auto-completion

By invoking yamlex map you can map the extension JSON schema files to the future YAML parts of the split extension.yaml. This will ensure proper validation and auto-completion for each and every part and not just for the extension.yaml.

Before you execute the map command, make sure relevant JSON schema files for extensions are downloaded and are placed in the right folder. By default, yamlex expects the relevant schema folder to be placed in the current directory under the schema/ name.

# Normal help
$ yamlex map

# More options
$ yamlex map .vscode/settings.json --json schema/ --source extension/src --root . --extension-yaml extension/extension.yaml

# Help message
$ yamlex map --help

 Usage: yamlex map [OPTIONS] [SETTINGS]                                                
                                                                                       
 Map JSON schema to YAML files in VS Code settings                                     
                                                                                       
╭─ Arguments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│   settings      [SETTINGS]  Path to the VS Code settings.json file.                 │
│                             [default: .vscode/settings.json]                        │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --json            -j      DIRECTORY  Path to directory with valid extensions JSON   │
│                                      schema files.                                  │
│                                      [default: schema]                              │
│ --source          -s      DIRECTORY  Path to directory where YAML source files will │
│                                      be stored. [default: source or src/source]     │
│ --root            -r      DIRECTORY  Root directory relative to which the paths in  │
│                                      settings file will be mapped. [default: .]     │
│ --extension-yaml  -e      FILE       Path to output extension.yaml file. [default:  │
│                                      extension/extension.yaml or                    │
│                                      src/extension/extension.yaml]                  │
│ --verbose                            Enable verbose output.                         │
│ --quiet                              Disable any informational output. Only errors. │
│ --help                               Show this message and exit.                    │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

(optional) Split the extension.yaml

This command will split the extension.yaml into individual parts. It is useful when you only just start using yamlex with an existing extension.

# Normal syntax
$ yamlex split

# Shorthand
$ yamlex s

# More options
$ yamlex split --source extension/extension.yaml --target extension/src

# Help message
$ yamlex split --help

 Usage: yamlex split [OPTIONS]                                                         
                                                                                       
 Split central YAML file into parts.                                                   
                                                                                       
╭─ Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --source   -s      FILE       Path to source extension.yaml file. [default:         │
│                               extension/extension.yaml or                           │
│                               src/extension/extension.yaml]                         │
│ --target   -t      DIRECTORY  Path to directory where split YAML source files will  │
│                               be stored. [default: source or src/source]            │
│ --force    -f                 Overwrite the files even if they were created         │
│                               manually.                                             │
│ --comment    -c    TEXT       Comment to add at the top of the YAML. [default:      │
│                               This file was generated by yamlex]                    │
│ --verbose                     Enable verbose output.                                │
│ --quiet                       Disable any informational output. Only errors.        │
│ --help                        Show this message and exit.                           │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

It tries to split YAML in a way that makes sense. It also preserves all comments and formatting.

Any part created by split will have a generated by yamlex line at the top of it. When you run the split command again, it won't overwrite the files that do not have this line, considering them to be manually created. You can overwrite this behavior by adding the --force flag.