Inline JSON: how to pick up two attributes with same name?

[zhulingfang]

I am trying to use Inline JSON to modify web.config file. In this file, I have two host under hosts: hosts host hostname="http://localhost:2469" host hostname="http://localhost:6299/" I am not able to pick up those two hostname to edit using xpath. Got following errors:

[error]System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException: Exception calling "Transform" with "4" argument(s): "The '[' character, hexadecimal value 0x5B, cannot be included in a name." ---> System.Xml.XmlException: The '[' character, hexadecimal value 0x5B, cannot be included in a name.

Is there anyway to address these two attributes or is this a bug? Need help on this.

Thanks!

[Sigman32]

If you could provide your inline trasformation JSON it would be easier to help you out.

But if your web.config is for exapmle:

<configuration>
... <!-- skipped other definitions -->
<hosts>
  <host hostname="http://localhost:2469"/>
  <host hostname="http://localhost:6299/"/>
</hosts>
... <!-- skipped other definitions -->
</configuration>

To replace these two hosts with some other values you could use this Inline JSON transformation:

{
"configuration/hosts/host[0]/@hostname":"http://first.hostname.local/",
"configuration/hosts/host[1]/@hostname":"http://second.hostname.local/"
}

Which should transform your configuration to:

<configuration>
... <!-- skipped other definitions -->
<hosts>
  <host hostname="http://first.hostname.local/"/>
  <host hostname="http://second.hostname.local/"/>
</hosts>
... <!-- skipped other definitions -->
</configuration>

[DarrinRobertson]

How would you add those two entries? I tried unsuccessfully with

{ "configuration/hosts/host[]0/@hostname":"http://first.hostname.local/", "configuration/hosts/host[]1/@hostname":"http://second.hostname.local/" }

[DarrinRobertson]

Actually, I was wrong, that did work.