tcl-augeas

This C extension for the Tcl interpreter provides bindings for Augeas, a configuration-editing tool.

Installation

tcl-augeas requires Tcl 8.5 or later. It supports Tcl 9. tcl-augeas is known to build and pass the tests with Augeas 0.10 through 1.8.

The current version has been tested on the following operating systems:

• Debian 12
• Fedora 39
• FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE
• NetBSD 10.0
• macOS 14
• OpenBSD 7.4
• openSUSE Leap 15.5
• Ubuntu 24.04

Step 1. Build dependencies

To build tcl-augeas, you will need a C compiler, make, pkg-config, and Augeas, libxml2, and Tcl with the C headers. Below are the commands to install the dependencies on different operating systems.

Debian and Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y build-essentkal libaugeas-dev pkg-config tcl-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y augeas-devel gcc make pkgconfig tcl-devel

openSUSE

sudo zypper install -y augeas augeas-lenses augeas-devel gcc make pkgconfig tcl-devel

macOS

Use Homebrew.

brew install augeas pkg-config tcl-tk

FreeBSD

sudo pkg install -y augeas libxml2 pkgconf tcl86

NetBSD

sudo pkgin -y install augeas libxml2 pkg-config tcl

OpenBSD

doas pkg_add -I augeas libxml2 pkg-config tcl%8.6

Step 2. Building and installing tcl-augeas

Clone this repository with Git or download and extract a tar archive. In the directory run the commands:

# BSDs, Linux distros.
./configure
# macOS with Homebrew.
./configure --with-tcl="$(brew --prefix tcl-tk)"/lib

make test

# Typical Free/NetBSD, most Linux distros.
sudo make install
# OpenBSD.
doas make install

API

Standard API

The commands tcl-augeas provides mirror the C public API of Augeas.

• ::augeas::init root ?loadpath? ?flags? -> token
• ::augeas::close token -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::save token -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::load token -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::get token path -> value
• ::augeas::set token path value -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::setm token base sub value -> number of nodes changed
• ::augeas::span token base -> {filename {label_start label_end} {value_start value_end} {span_start span_end}}
• ::augeas::insert token path label ?before? -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::mv token src dst -> (nothing)
• ::augeas::rm token path -> number of nodes removed
• ::augeas::rename token src lbl -> number of nodes renamed
• ::augeas::match token path -> list of matches

init flags

See the numerical values for aug_flags in augeas.h. For example, AUG_ENABLE_SPAN is 1 << 7 or 128.

Errors

Besides missing proc arguments, tcl-augeas returns an error when

• An invalid token is given to any command that expects a token;
• init receives a non-integer for flags;
• init fails to create an Augeas object;
• save can't save changes to disk;
• load fails to load data from disk (but not when it partially succeeds);
• get path matches multiple or no nodes;
• set path matches multiple nodes;
• setm changes no nodes;
• span is called, but spans aren't enabled (through the flag AUG_ENABLE_SPAN or /augeas/span);
• span receives an invalid path;
• insert can't create a sibling label;
• rm receives an invalid path;
• rm changes no nodes;
• rename receives an invalid path;
• rename changes no nodes;
• match receives an invalid path;
• An internal error occurs in Augeas.

OO wrapper

An optional object-oriented API wrapper is available as the package augeas::oo. It requires either TclOO or Snit 2. The former ships with Tcl ≥ 8.6; the latter is part of Tcllib. If both are available, TclOO is used.

• ::augeas::oo::new root ?loadpath? ?flags? -> objName
• $objName destroy -> (nothing)
• $objName save -> (nothing)
• $objName load -> (nothing)
• $objName get path -> value
• $objName set path value -> (nothing)
• $objName setm base sub value -> number of nodes changed
• $objName span base -> {filename {label_start label_end} {value_start value_end} {span_start span_end}}
• $objName insert path label ?before? -> (nothing)
• $objName mv src dst -> (nothing)
• $objName rm path -> number of nodes removed
• $objName rename src lbl -> number of nodes renamed
• $objName match path -> list of matches

FAQ

How can I reload the whole tree or part of it?

::augeas::rm $token /files ;# or /files/path
::augeas::load $token

How can I see the error message for the latest error?

::augeas::get $token /augeas/error

License

MIT. See the file LICENSE.

configure is generated using GNU Autoconf.

acinclude.m4, configure.ac, Makefile.in, and pkgIndex.tcl.in are derived from the Sample TEA Extension. See the file tea-license.terms for the license.

The files in tclconfig/ come from the tclconfig repository. See tclconfig/license.terms.