What tools support editing project.pbxproj files?

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David T. picture David T. · Aug 21, 2015 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I want to edit project.pbxproj straight up using command line (for CI server script)

what tools can allow me to do this?

I used to use PlistBuddy to edit the output Info.plist; however, what i really want to do is to edit this user defined field, which is used in multiple places, and i really don't want to have to hunt that down in every plist location

Answer

DawnSong picture DawnSong · May 17, 2019

project.pbxproj is an old-style ASCII property list file, too. So you can use /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy to edit it.

Print some User-Defined key's value like this,

# Get the key A83311AA20DA4A80004B8C0E in your project.pbxproj
# LZD_NOTIFICATION_SERVICE_BUNDLE_ID is defined by me,
# Replace key paths with your own.
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'print :objects:A83311AA20DA4A80004B8C0E:buildSettings:LZD_NOTIFICATION_SERVICE_BUNDLE_ID' LAAppAdapter.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

Set its value like this,

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'set :objects:A83311AA20DA4A80004B8C0E:buildSettings:LZD_NOTIFICATION_SERVICE_BUNDLE_ID com.dawnsong.notification-service' LAAppAdapter.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

UPDATE: PlistBuddy will automatically convert project.pbxproj into a xml-format plist file since macOS Catalina or earlier version. Consider move the setting item into xcconfig file instead, please since xcconfig is much smaller and simpler than project.pbxproj and not easy to make mistake when editing with perl script.

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