Hand editing .kdev4/myproject.kdev4

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Alvin Beach <alvinbeach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way, in BASH, to edit values stored in the .kdev4 project
> file that start with "@Variant()"?
>
> I have a vanilla, carefully configured KDevelop4 project and source
> directory (think of it as an application template). I have a script
> that copies this project and uses various command line tools (awk,
> sed, etc.) to modify the files. When I want to start a new project, I
> run the script and it creates a new directory with the desired project
> name and modified source tree.
>
> Everything works great, but I haven't found a way to modify/update the
> "Build Sequence".
>
> In the .kdev4/myproject.kdev4, "Build Sequence" seems to stored in:
>
>    BuildItems=@Variant(\x00\x00\x00....)
>
> From my searching, this is JSON or some other format. Found a search
> result that showed KDevelop::stringToQVariant() or something like
> that.
>
> Just curious if it would be possible to convert the BuildItems value
> into a string, modify it and then convert it back?
>
> My other idea is that I really should be using KDevelop Project
> Templates. I've looked into that in the past, but could never get it
> to work.
>
> KDevelop 4.6.0
> KDevPlatform 4.13.3
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alvin
>

It's KConfig generating those values. Maybe the kreadconfig and
kwriteconfig tools can help you, but I must note this use-case is not
really supported at the moment.

Aleix
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