vRO-package-diff tool

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Project description

vRO-package-diff is a Python package to compare 2 VMware vRealize Orchestrator packages.

It provides a table-formated diff of two packages:

Sample of output

It is also possible to export unified diff files for each supported element:

tree -L 2 ./diff/
./diff/
├── conflict
│   ├── action
│   ├── configurationelement
│   ├── resourceelement
│   └── workflow
├── no_upgrade
│   ├── action
│   ├── configurationelement
│   └── workflow
└── upgrade
    ├── action
    ├── configurationelement
    ├── resourceelement
    └── workflow

cat ./diff/conflict/action/af7b881d-ba59-40d0-8207-be9e9b2ae34d.diff
--- tests/data/package_v1.0.package - Action: this_is_action_a (0.0.1)
+++ tests/data/package_v1.1.package - Action: this_is_action_a (0.0.1)
@@ -13,7 +13,5 @@
        // nothing, just for fun :)
 }

-Plop;
-
 System.debug("this_is_action_a stopped");]]></script>

Installing

Install and update using pip:

pip install vro-package-diff

vRO-package-diff supports Python 3.5 and newer.

Test installation

::
vro-diff -V

This should produce an output with the current installed version of vro-package-diff.

Usage example

vro-diff --legend --reference_package tests/data/package_v1.0.package tests/data/package_v1.1.package

CLI help

You can get the usage help by using the -h/--help flag:

vro-diff -h

Usage: vro-diff [OPTIONS] COMPARED_PACKAGE

Compare two vRealize Orchestrator packages.

Use the [-r/--reference_package] option to specify the reference package.

Options:
-r, --reference_package FILENAME
                                 Reference package to compare your package
                                 with.  [required]
-l, --legend                    Display the legend after the diff table
-t, --test                      Exit with `0` if package can be safely
                                 imported. Else, returns the number of errors
-a, --ascii                     Only use ASCII symbols to display results
-b, --no_color                  Do not colorized the output
-d, --diff PATH                 A folder where to generate unified diff
                                 files output
-e, --empty-config              Check for values in the configuration
                                 elements: if so, exit with failure status.
-h, --help                      Show this message and exit.

License

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