Minor Functionality Update for UpdateTitleEditor.py

Today I pushed a minor change to UpdateTitleEditor, in an attempt to make recipes incorporating it more flexible. I’ve noticed that Grahama Pugh uses true/false values in a autopkg environment variables (i.e. pkg_uploaded) to work with StopProcessingIf processors, and have really found myself liking the flexibility, so I decided to work title_updated in to be used as a predicate. Now a .jamf recipe can look this to:

Update Title Editor
If the version is not new, exit, If it is:
- Upload the package.
- If that does not succeed, exit. If it does:
  - Update a policy

Process:
-   Processor: really.cool.Processors/UpdateTitleEditor
    Arguments:
        title_id: '1001'
        
-   Arguments:
        predicate: title_updated == False
    Processor: StopProcessingIf

-   Processor: com.github.grahampugh.jamf-upload.processors/JamfPackageUploader
    Arguments:
      pkg_name: '%NAME%-%version%.pkg'
      pkg_category: '%CATEGORY%'

-   Processor: StopProcessingIf
    Arguments:
      predicate: pkg_uploaded == False

-   Processor: com.github.grahampugh.jamf-upload.processors/JamfPolicyUploader
    Arguments:
      policy_name: '%POLICY_NAME%'
      policy_template: '%POLICY_TEMPLATE%'
      policy_category: '%CATEGORY%'
      icon: '%SELF_SERVICE_ICON%'
      replace_icon: 'True'
      replace_policy: 'True'

<key>Process</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>Processor</key>
        <string>really.cool.Processors/UpdateTitleEditor</string>
        <key>Arguments</key>
        <dict>
            <key>title_id</key>
            <integer>1001</integer>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>Arguments</key>
        <dict>
            <key>predicate</key>
            <string>title_updated == False</string>
        </dict>
        <key>Processor</key>
        <string>StopProcessingIf</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>Processor</key>
        <string>com.github.grahampugh.jamf-upload.processors/JamfPackageUploader</string>
        <key>Arguments</key>
        <dict>
            <key>pkg_name</key>
            <string>%NAME%-%version%.pkg</string>
            <key>pkg_category</key>
            <string>%CATEGORY%</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>Processor</key>
        <string>StopProcessingIf</string>
        <key>Arguments</key>
        <dict>
            <key>predicate</key>
            <string>pkg_uploaded == False</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>Processor</key>
        <string>com.github.grahampugh.jamf-upload.processors/JamfPolicyUploader</string>
        <key>Arguments</key>
        <dict>
            <key>policy_name</key>
            <string>%POLICY_NAME%</string>
            <key>policy_template</key>
            <string>%POLICY_TEMPLATE%</string>
            <key>policy_category</key>
            <string>%CATEGORY%</string>
            <key>icon</key>
            <string>%SELF_SERVICE_ICON%</string>
            <key>replace_icon</key>
            <string>True</string>
            <key>replace_policy</key>
            <string>True</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</array>

It can speed up recipe runs by exiting if the version hasn’t changed, but won’t affect your use case if you won’t want to. Most importantly, it’s easy.

Because there has to be an easier way.

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