Error while adding step template Find and Replace

[ramya_surendranath]

When we try to add the step template File system : Find and Replace we are getting the error as below:

Actions names ‘File System - Find and Replace’, ‘Read File Content’ are already in use by other steps in this deployment process. Action names must be unique.

Here is the script:

function Execute-FindReplace($target, $find, $replace, $ignoreCase) {
$options = [System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::None
if ($ignoreCase) {
$options = [System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::IgnoreCase
}

Write-Output "Searching $target..."
$orig = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($target)

$escFind = [System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Escape($find)
$regex = new-object System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex($escFind, $options)
$removed = $regex.Replace($orig, '')

$occurrences = ($orig.Length - $removed.Length) / $find.Length
if ($occurrences -gt 0) {
    Write-Output "Found $occurrences occurrence(s), replacing..."
    
    $escReplace = $replace.Replace('$', '$$')
    $replaced = $regex.Replace($orig, $escReplace)
    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($target, $replaced)
}

}

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($FRFindText)) {
throw “A non-empty ‘Find’ text block is required”
}

Write-Output “Replacing occurrences of ‘$FRFindText’ with ‘$FRReplaceText’”
if ([Boolean] $FRIgnoreCase) {
Write-Output “Case will be ignored”
}

$FRCandidatePathGlobs.Split(";") | foreach {
$glob = $_.Trim()
Write-Output “Searching for files that match $glob…”

$matches = $null
$splits = $glob.Split(@('/**/'), [System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

if ($splits.Length -eq 1) {
    $splits = $glob.Split(@('\**\'), [System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)
}

if ($splits.Length -eq 1) {
    $matches = ls $glob
} else {
    if ($splits.Length -eq 2) {
        pushd $splits[0]
        $matches = ls $splits[1] -Recurse
        popd
    } else {
        $splits
        throw "The segment '**' can only appear once, as a directory name, in the glob expression"

    }
}

$matches | foreach {
    
    $target = $_.FullName

    Execute-FindReplace -target $target -find $FRFindText -replace $FRReplaceText -ignoreCase ([Boolean] $FRIgnoreCase)
}

}

Write-Output “Done.”

[henrik (Henrik Andersson)]

Hi Ramya,

Thanks for getting in touch.

Looking at the error message, you need to rename the step as there is already a step in your deployment process with the same name.

I hope that helps.

Thank you and kind regards,
Henrik

[ramya_surendranath]

We tried renaming the step and that also provided the same error. All type of new names were provided but still the error persists.

[henrik (Henrik Andersson)]

Can you send through a screenshot of your current full deployment process, and the error you receive when trying to add another File System - Find and Replace step with a different name.

Thanks,
Henrik

[ramya_surendranath]

Please find the screen shot:

[henrik (Henrik Andersson)]

Could you send through your deployment process as JSON for me, see below:

Thanks,
Henrik

[ramya_surendranath]

deploymentprocess-Projects-13.json (324.1 KB)

[henrik (Henrik Andersson)]

As I suspected, you have 2 steps that are named File System - Find and Replace and 2 steps that are named Read File Content already in your deployment process and if I remember correctly we had a bug a while back that allowed for this scenario to occur.

I’ve written up the C# script (can be run using LINQPad, link to script or just added to a .NET console app and run that way) below that should rename the duplicate steps so that you can start editing the deployment process again (please note: requires the Octopus.Clients and JSON.Net NuGet packages):

var octopusServer = "https://<your server address>";
var octopusApiKey = "API-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA";
var endPoint = new OctopusServerEndpoint(octopusServer, octopusApiKey);
var repo =  new OctopusRepository(endPoint);
var deploymentProcess = repo.DeploymentProcesses.Get("deploymentprocess-Projects-13");
var duplicateActionGroups = deploymentProcess.Steps.SelectMany(s => s.Actions).GroupBy(a => a.Name).Where(g => g.Count() > 1);
foreach(var duplicateActionGroup in duplicateActionGroups)
{
	var i = 1;
	foreach(var action in duplicateActionGroup)
	{
		action.Name = $"{action.Name} {i}";
		i++;
	}
}
repo.DeploymentProcesses.Modify(deploymentProcess);

I hope that helps.

Thank you,
Henrik

[ramya_surendranath]

Where should i implement this script. Does this act as step template to remove the duplicate Action name.

[henrik (Henrik Andersson)]

You have 2 options here:

• You can run it using LINQPad (I’ve shared the script here so you can download it and open in LINQPad, update the octopusServer, octopusApiKey and deploymentProcessId values with your details).
• Or, you can create a new .NET console app and add the script there and run it that way.

I recommend you take a DB backup before running the script just to be on the safe side, in case something goes wrong (it shouldn’t as the script is a pretty simple script and only affects 1 record in the database)

Thanks,
Henrik