Enhancement #5983
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE almost 10 years ago
cf-agent gives an error with the following code :
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bundle edit_line edit_one_line
{
replace_patterns:
"^test.*" replace_with => value("test me");
}
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Withs this kind of error
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2014-12-11T14:56:50+0100 error: /default/test4/files/'/tmp/test'/default/edit_one_line/replace_patterns/'^test.:'[0]: Promised replacement 'test' on line 'test ij' for pattern '^test.*' is not convergent while editing '/tmp/test'
2014-12-11T14:56:50+0100 error: /default/test4/files/'/tmp/test'/default/edit_one_line/replace_patterns/'^test.:'[0]: Because the regular expression '^test.*' still matches the replacement string 'test me'
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It says that its not convergent since you replace a line with itself.
Nobody can understand that, and the user is understandably confused.
cfengine should be modified to make a regex that do not modify a line BE convergent.
For people wanting to work around this, you must prepend a zero width negative forward lookahead in your regex everywhere you have a quantifier that could match the final thing.
In this test case it would look like "^test(?! me).*"