Ansible Module xml

External

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/xml_module.html

Internal

• Ansible Concepts

Overview

The plugin is named community.general.xml and it offers functionality aimed at interacting with XML files, using XPath.

Example

- name: Bump Java build heap size to {{build.jvm.heap_max}} MB
  xml:
    path: "{{ansible_env.PROJECT_ROOT}}/.idea/compiler.xml"
    xpath: /project/component[@name='CompilerConfiguration']/option[@name='BUILD_PROCESS_HEAP_SIZE']
    attribute: "value"
    value: "{{build.jvm.heap_max}}"

- name: Set Eclipse as default compiler
  xml:
    path: "{{idea_path}}/.idea/compiler.xml"
    xpath: /project/component[@name='CompilerConfiguration']/option[@name='DEFAULT_COMPILER']
    attribute: "value"
    value: "Eclipse"