Is there a way to add a json item to an array without a key?

[roni-estein]

Here is an example to clarify, I'm replacing bash scripting, and trying to avoid forced installation of local software to make this more available to someone without macos, or without a specific homebrew installed app, so using something like executeCommandis not the answer I'm looking for.

In a preset I'm installing laravel-filament. One of the steps is adding something to composer.json post-update-cmd array. I previously would do this via bash script in a step as follows:

echo "installing laravel-filament"
composer require filament/filament

git commit -a -m "Installed laravel-filament"

jq '."scripts"."post-update-cmd" += ["@php artisan filament:upgrade"]' composer.json

git commit -a -m "Added filament post-update-cmd"

since post-update-cmd is an array, I really am appending it to the end of that array. jq will be parsing the json, so it will know if it needs trailing commas and keep the structure. I haven't been able to get the edit-json command to work similarly with arrays. instead I'm doing a find and replace, but this can at some point cause issues if I don't know whats happening in the array already. Here is an example:

await editFiles({
    title: 'add post update artisan command to composer.json',
    files: 'composer.json',
    operations: [{
        type: 'update-content',
        update: (content) => content.replace(
            '"@php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force"',
            `"@php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force",
"@php artisan filament:upgrade"`),
    }],
})

In this situation I need to assume that they will not have anything else in the post-update-cmd array.

I've tried everything I could think of in this strategy, but was unable to make it work:

await editFiles({
    files: 'composer.json',
    operations: [
        // {type: 'edit-json', delete: ['scripts', 'devDependencies']},
        {type: 'edit-json', merge: {'scripts': {'post-update-cmd':'"@php artisan filament:upgrade"'}}},
    ],
    title: 'update package.json',
})

Thanks.

[innocenzi]

Hello! The following should work:

await editFiles({
	files: 'composer.json',
	operations: [
		{ type: 'edit-json', merge: { scripts: { 'post-update-cmd': ['@php artisan filament:upgrade'] } } },
	],
	title: 'update package.json',
})

The difference with your snippet is that post-update-cmd is treated as an array.

[roni-estein]

Perfect! worked exactly as expected.