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Function to update a node in a json or xml file
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| import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
| import json | |
| def nested_json_set(dic, keys, value): | |
| for key in keys[:-1]: | |
| dic = dic.setdefault(key, {}) | |
| dic[keys[-1]] = value | |
| def ReplaceStringInFile(filename, child_tree, dest_ip): | |
| # try: | |
| if '.cfg' in filename: | |
| # Update the json | |
| try: | |
| contents = json.load(open(filename)) | |
| nested_json_set(contents, child_tree, dest_ip) | |
| except: | |
| print('Failed to configure', filename) | |
| # Update the file | |
| out = open(filename, "w") | |
| json.dump(contents, out, indent=4) | |
| out.close() | |
| elif '.xml' in filename: | |
| xml_tree = ET.parse(filename) | |
| curr_node = xml_tree | |
| for element in child_tree[1:]: # start with the 2nd element since xml loads the top node already | |
| curr_node = curr_node.find(element) | |
| curr_node.text = dest_ip | |
| xml_tree.write(filename, encoding='UTF-8', xml_declaration=True) | |
| else: | |
| print('Invalid filename: ', filename) |
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