Hi Alexander
I hope I have understood correctly your question... I do have in my JSON
files one line of comments right before I start the definition of my
variables.. this is the way I have added them
{
*"_comment": "This si a centos7-x64 Machine for VmWare ESXi 6.0", <=== My
comments*
"variables": {
"nameVm": "centos-7.1-vmware_DevOPS",
"ks_file": "simple-ks-integrado-CIS-BitbyBit.ks",
"ks_server": "192.168.1.150",
"ks_path": "centos7.1511_x64/ks/",
"vmware_host": "192.168.1.250",
"http_dir": "/packer"
}
Basically is to add the "_comment" style element in the JSON file at the
very beginning. I do use this to describe what the is the purpose of the
whole JSON file
The other way I have found myself using comments and not affect the JSON
file, is using JSMIN <http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html>
Hope this helps
On Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 12:21:25 AM UTC+12, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
>
> As Packer is using json for the config, I would like to run a preprocessor
> before running packer to strip Javascript comments from the json file.
>
> I have found a nodejs tool for that called strip-json-comments-cli which
> works ok, but since that requires npm install, it seems like kind of
> complicated to provision e.g. in a CI environment just for the single
> script.
>
> On the other hand I could add the stripped file in the git repo so that as
> long as there are no changes in the source file, the tool is not needed
> (which would solve the CI question).
>
> Can anyone suggest other tools (e.g. in go) or are you using another
> procedure to get comment support for the config file?
>
>
> Thanks, Alexander
>
>
>
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