A Ansible filter plugin that helps you edit xml files

ansible_xml_filter.py

'''Ansible filters: useful to edit xml configs

'''

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def xml_edit(xml, xpath, attrs={}, txt=None):
    '''changes is a list of xpath, attributes and text'''
    root = ET.fromstring(xml)
    elm = root.find(xpath)
    if elm is None:
        tag = xpath[2:] if xpath.startswith('./') else xpath
        elm = ET.SubElement(root, tag)
    for k, v in attrs.items():
        elm.attrib[k] = v
    if txt:
        elm.text = txt
    return ET.tostring(root).decode('utf-8')

class FilterModule(object):
    def filters(self):
        return {
            'xml_edit': xml_edit,
        }