plistwizard

PLIST WIZARD

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This magically simple tool was created to parse property list XML files from Xcode, more specifically the Info.plist files that contain various project related information.

It can be used to query for specific values or bump the version and build number automatically.

Apple provides the agvtool for this purpose, however the tool has various annoying limitations:

• bugs when working on projects with multiple targets
• no option to specify a path to a plist file of interest
• no option to increment the marketing version automatically
• no git integration
• source code of the tool is not available

Since parsing XML is not witchcraft, this is a simple and extensible implementation of the desired functionality in Go.

Future Plans

• add support for adding / updating entries in the dictionary
• format XML

Examples

Show version inside an Xcode project directory:

$ plistwizard -version
0.4.12 (117)

Show a table with elements of the data dictionary:

$ plistwizard -plist MyProject/Info.plist
+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|              Key               |                          Value                            |
+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| CFBundleDevelopmentRegion      | $(DEVELOPMENT_LANGUAGE)                                   |
| CFBundleExecutable             | $(EXECUTABLE_NAME)                                        |
| CFBundleIconFile               |                                                           |
| CFBundleIdentifier             | $(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)                              |
| CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion  | 6.0                                                       |
| CFBundleName                   | $(PRODUCT_NAME)                                           |
| CFBundlePackageType            | APPL                                                      |
| CFBundleShortVersionString     | 0.4.12                                                    |
| CFBundleVersion                | 117                                                       |
| LSApplicationCategoryType      | public.app-category.utilities                             |
| LSMinimumSystemVersion         | $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET)                               |
| LSUIElement                    | true                                                      |
| NSHumanReadableCopyright       | Copyright © 2018 Me. All rights reserved.                 |
| NSMainStoryboardFile           | Main                                                      |
| NSPrincipalClass               | NSApplication                                             |
| NSUserNotificationAlertStyle   | alert                                                     |
+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+

Lookup a value for the specified key inside the dictionary inside the plist:

$ plistwizard -plist MyProject/Info.plist -lookup LSApplicationCategoryType
public.app-category.utilities

Show the next version:

$ plistwizard -next-version
would bump version from 0.4.12 (117) to 0.4.13 (118)

Bump the major version number (works also when there are multiple targets inside the project):

$ plistwizard -bump-version -major
bumped version in MyProject/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 1.0.0 (118)
bumped version in MyProject Helper/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 1.0.0 (118)

This will set all targets to the same version and fatal if the versions are different.

Bump the minor version number:

$ plistwizard -bump-version -minor
bumped version in MyProject/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 0.5.0 (118)
bumped version in MyProject Helper/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 0.5.0 (118)

Bump the patch version number (default!):

$ plistwizard -bump-version
bumped version in MyProject/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 0.4.13 (118)
bumped version in MyProject Helper/Info.plist 0.4.12 (117) to 0.4.13 (118)

For usage in scripts, checkout the interactive bumping:

$ plistwizard -bump-version-interactive

This will ask which part of the version to bump in an interactive shell with tab completion!

Help

$ plistwizard -h
plistwizard [-plist <path/to/plist>] [-next-version] [-bump-version] [-lookup <key>]

Usage of plistwizard:
-build-number
        print only build number
-bump-interactive
        bump version interactive
-bump-version
        bump version and build number
-commit
        commit changes on plist file with git
-dir string
        set directory (default ".")
-git-check
        abort if input file has a dirty state in git (default true)
-list
        recursively search for plists and list them all
-listall
        recursively search for plists and list them all
-lookup string
        lookup the value for a key in the property list dictionary
-major
        bump major version
-marketing-version
        print only marketing version
-minor
        bump minor version
-next-version
        only print next version value and dont bump version
-patch
        bump patch version (default true)
-plist string
        path to .plist file (default "Info.plist")
-version
        print main Xcode project version in format 'marketingVersion (buildNumber)' and exit

License

GPLv3