appx-manifest-version

appx-manifest-version

Tool used to increment the version number of an AppxManifest.xml file.

Installation

The package is published to npmjs.com. You can install with:

npm install -g appx-manifest-version

or

npm install appx-manifest-version --save-dev

Command Line

appx-version manifest_file_path

This will load the Appx manifest XML file manifest_file_path, locate the Package/Identity@Version field and increment the final numerical field after a period (.). Then it will overwrite the original manifest file with the updated content.

Code

You can call into the appx-manifest-version module from your own code as follows:

const appxVersion = require('appx-manifest-version');

// currentManifestString is a string containing the manifest contents
// returns a Promise
appxVersion.incrementVersion(currentManifestString)
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data.version);  // new version string
    console.log(data.manifest); // new manifest string
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error(err.status);  // error code
    console.error(err.details); // error details string
  });

// manifestPath is the path to the manifest XML file
// overwriteCurrent is true if the current XML file should be updated
// returns a Promise
appxVersion.incrementVersionFile(manifestPath,overwriteCurrent)
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data.version);  // new version string
    console.log(data.manifest); // new manifest string
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error(err.status);  // error code
    console.error(err.details); // error details string
  });

License

See the LICENSE file.