feat(yaml-ops): add WriteYamlValue and AppendYamlListItem behaviors - #14
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- WriteYamlValue sets a value at a nested key path in a YAML file. The file_path port accepts an absolute path, an absolute path with ${VAR} and leading ~ expansion, or a ROS package URL (package://<pkg>/<rest>) resolved via ament_index_cpp::get_package_share_directory. The value port is parsed as YAML before storing, so scalars, inline maps, and sequences all flow through a single string port. Intermediate maps along key1..key5 are auto-created.
- AppendYamlListItem appends a YAML-parsed value to a sequence at the same kind of key path. Creates the sequence if absent; fails the tick if the keyed location exists and is not a sequence.
- Path resolution shared via a small inline expandPath helper at include/experimental_behaviors/path_expansion.hpp.
- Both behaviors round-trip through yaml-cpp on every tick (load existing -> modify -> dump). Each call is atomic, so partial files survive crashes mid-operation. Fails the tick if the file does not exist; these behaviors do not create files.
- Adds yaml-cpp and ament_index_cpp as package dependencies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous traversal pattern was the well-known yaml-cpp pitfall:
YAML::Node node = root;
for (...) { ... node = node[k]; }
node[keys.back()] = parsed_value;
out << root;
`node = node[k]` rebinds `node` to a detached copy, so the final write
doesn't propagate back to `root` — and worse, `out << root` then emits
only the subset that survived the round-trip, silently corrupting the
file. In practice every WriteYamlValue / AppendYamlListItem call against
a per-job manifest was wiping out everything InitObjectiveManifest had
written and leaving only the keyed value at the *top* level (no parent
map), because the partial-tree serialization picked up just the last
detached subtree.
Reproduced with a standalone yaml-cpp test that mirrored the manifest
flow: the buggy pattern produced
{bug_pass: {winning_option: A}}
from a full Init manifest, while the chained-subscript fix
root[k1][k2][k3] = value
preserved every previously-written key and nested the value under
`passes:` as intended.
Switch both behaviors to a chained-subscript switch on keys.size().
yaml-cpp handles the chained form correctly because the whole path is
evaluated as a single expression. Cap supported depth at 5 (the design
already documents 5 as the max).
AppendYamlListItem additionally builds a fresh sequence with the
existing items plus the new one and re-assigns at the chained path, so
the propagation is explicit on both the read and the write side.
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In `@CMakeLists.txt`:
- Line 33: Update target_link_libraries for experimental_behaviors to link
yaml-cpp privately, preventing it from being exposed through the target’s public
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In `@include/experimental_behaviors/path_expansion.hpp`:
- Around line 65-71: Replace the wordexp-based logic in the path expansion
function with a dedicated expander that substitutes environment variables using
${VAR} syntax and expands a leading ~, while preserving all other characters
including spaces and wildcard characters. Remove reliance on exp.we_wordv[0] and
wordfree, and keep the existing output behavior for paths without applicable
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In `@src/write_yaml_value.cpp`:
- Around line 156-175: The chained YAML traversal and assignment in
src/write_yaml_value.cpp lines 156-175 and src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp lines
157-185 must handle scalar intermediate nodes without letting YAML::BadSubscript
escape tick(). Validate each intermediate node is a map before descending, or
wrap traversal and assignment in YAML::Exception handling, returning
BT::NodeStatus::FAILURE on failure in both sites.
- Around line 178-187: Replace direct destination writes in the YAML write logic
of src/write_yaml_value.cpp (178-187) and src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp
(218-227) with validated temporary-file writes in the destination directory
followed by atomic rename; handle serialization, flush/close, and rename
failures without reporting SUCCESS or leaving partial output. Update the
atomicity claim in include/experimental_behaviors/write_yaml_value.hpp (34-36)
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Four fixes from review of #14: **Path expansion no longer goes through wordexp(3).** wordexp treats its argument as a shell word, and a file path is not one: `/mnt/my job/f.yaml` came back as `/mnt/my` (field splitting, and only we_wordv[0] was read), and `/mnt/job-*/f.yaml` silently resolved to whichever entry globbed first — a write aimed at one job's manifest could land in another's. Replaced with an expander that substitutes `${VAR}` and a leading `~` and copies every other character through verbatim, so spaces, quotes and glob characters survive and no subshell is reachable. An unset or malformed variable now falls back to the literal input rather than expanding to "", which keeps the resulting file-open error pointing at what the tree actually asked for. **Guarded the nested-key traversal.** yaml-cpp can auto-create a map from an absent or null node, but throws BadSubscript when an intermediate key holds a scalar, so `job: some-scalar` plus key path `job.id` threw straight out of tick(). Both behaviors now catch YAML::Exception around the traversal and return FAILURE naming the file and the key path. **Writes are atomic.** WriteYamlValue's header claimed atomicity that the plain truncate-and-write did not provide: a crash or a full disk left the manifest truncated, and a concurrent reader could observe a partial document. Both behaviors now serialize to a string, write it to a uniquely named temporary in the destination's own directory, fsync it, rename it over the destination and fsync the directory — carrying the destination's permissions over so an atomic write does not re-mode the file to the process umask. **yaml-cpp links PRIVATE.** No installed header includes it, so it has no business in the exported target's INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES, where a consumer could not resolve it (it is not in ament_export_dependencies). This forces the keyword signature on ament_target_dependencies too, since CMake rejects mixing the plain and keyword forms on one target. The new atomic-write helper takes the serialized bytes rather than a YAML::Node, which is what keeps yaml-cpp out of the installed headers. Adds test/test_yaml_file_helpers.cpp covering both helpers — including the wordexp regressions above — and instantiates WriteYamlValue and AppendYamlListItem in the plugin-loading test, which #14 had missed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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keyPathToStringand the key port identifiers are copied into both YAML behaviors. The shared root cause is that the two nodes keep their own copy of the same key-path helpers in file-local anonymous namespaces. Move them into one internal header, for examplesrc/yaml_key_path.hpp, so the definitions cannot drift.
src/write_yaml_value.cpp#L55-L68: delete the localkeyPathToStringdefinition and include the shared internal header.src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp#L56-L68: delete the localkeyPathToStringdefinition and include the same shared internal header.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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std::filesystem::renamereplaces the symlink itself whenfile_pathis a symlink.std::filesystem::statusfollows the link, so the mode of the link target is applied to the new regular file. If a symlinked YAML target is a supported configuration, resolvefile_pathwithstd::filesystem::weakly_canonicalbefore the write. If it is not supported, state that in the doc comment.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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yaml-cpp::yaml-cppwhen available.The Ubuntu 22.04 yaml-cpp 0.7.0 package exports
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In `@CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 33-40: Update the experimental_behaviors yaml-cpp linkage to use
yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp when that namespaced target exists, while retaining yaml-cpp
as the fallback for environments without it; preserve the existing PRIVATE
linkage and ament_target_dependencies configuration.
In `@include/experimental_behaviors/atomic_file_write.hpp`:
- Around line 93-113: The atomic write documentation should explicitly state how
symlink destinations are handled: replacement targets the symlink itself, while
permission lookup follows it and copies the target mode. If symlinked YAML
destinations are supported, resolve file_path with weakly_canonical before
writing; otherwise document that symlink destinations are unsupported.
In `@src/write_yaml_value.cpp`:
- Around line 55-68: The duplicated keyPathToString and key port identifier
helpers should be centralized in a shared internal header. In
src/write_yaml_value.cpp lines 55-68 and src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp lines
56-68, remove the local helper definitions and include the shared header, such
as src/yaml_key_path.hpp, so both YAML behaviors use the same definitions.
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In `@include/experimental_behaviors/atomic_file_write.hpp`:
- Line 57: Replace the std::ofstream creation in the atomic temporary-file flow
with open() using O_CREAT, O_EXCL, and O_NOFOLLOW, then write through the
returned descriptor. Handle EEXIST by generating a new unique temp_path and
retrying, while preserving the existing rename-based atomic replacement and
cleanup behavior.
- Around line 117-121: Update the post-rename directory durability handling in
the atomic file-write function: check both open and fsync results, and return an
error when either fails stating that the replacement is visible but durability
is uncertain. Revise the function contract to reflect that the destination
cannot be restored after rename, while preserving the existing close behavior.
In `@src/write_yaml_value.cpp`:
- Around line 149-231: Serialize each YAML read-modify-write transaction with a
per-target lock acquired before YAML::LoadFile and held through assignment,
serialization, and writeFileAtomically replacement. Apply this to the
WriteYamlValue flow in src/write_yaml_value.cpp lines 149-231 and the
corresponding append flow in src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp lines 145-270, using
a process-shared sidecar lock when separate ROS processes may target the same
file.
- Around line 143-147: Update tick() in src/write_yaml_value.cpp (lines 143-147)
and src/append_yaml_list_item.cpp (lines 139-143) to use the std::error_code
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Second round of review feedback on #14. **The temporary is created with `O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOFOLLOW`.** Its name is predictable (pid plus counter), and `std::ofstream` would have followed a symlink planted at that path and truncated whatever it named. It now goes through `open(2)`, so a planted file fails the create (retried with a fresh name) and a planted symlink cannot redirect the write at all. Writing through the descriptor also drops the reopen-to-fsync step, and the destination's mode is now carried over with `fchmod` on that same descriptor rather than by re-resolving a path. **A symlinked destination is resolved before the write.** `rename(2)` replaces the link itself, so the previous truncate-and-write and this atomic replace disagreed about what a symlinked path means. The link's target is replaced and the link is left in place, which is what an ordinary `open(2)` of that path did. **Directory-flush failures are reported.** The `fsync` on the destination directory was discarded, so a failure to make the rename durable was invisible. It is now surfaced, with the contract spelling out that this one failure mode leaves the new contents visible and cannot be rolled back. `EINVAL` and `ENOTSUP` stay non-fatal: a filesystem that does not implement directory fsync reports it that way rather than being non-durable. **`std::filesystem::exists` no longer uses the throwing overload.** A symlink loop, an unreadable parent directory or a too-long name threw out of `tick()` instead of failing it. Both behaviors now take the `error_code` overload and distinguish a missing file from an unanswerable question. Also: `keyPathToString` moved to `src/yaml_key_path.hpp` so the two behaviors cannot drift (internal, deliberately not installed); `yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp` is preferred over the bare target where the installed config exports it. Not done: serializing the whole load-edit-store against concurrent writers. That needs a lock held across the read and the replacement, and the only airtight form is a sidecar lock file next to every target — a new file in each artifact directory plus a blocking wait inside a tick, to protect against a second writer that does not exist (BT nodes tick single-threaded, and each of these files has one writing process). Both headers now state the single-writer assumption instead. Tests cover the symlinked destination and the planted-temporary case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ailure The previous round made writeFileAtomically report a failed directory fsync, but reported it as `false` — and both behaviors turn that into BT::NodeStatus::FAILURE. The rename has already happened at that point, so a parent that retries the action re-loads the changed document and applies the edit a second time: AppendYamlListItem would append the same item twice. writeFileAtomically now returns which of three things happened — kSucceeded, kSucceededNotDurable, kFailed — because "the write did not happen" and "the write happened but may not survive a power loss" are not the same answer and only the first is retriable. `error` carries the message for both non-success cases. Both behaviors log kSucceededNotDurable through RCLCPP_WARN and return SUCCESS; only kFailed fails the tick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
writeFileAtomically makes a replacement indivisible but not a load-edit-replace: two writers could each load the same document, apply a different edit, and the second rename would discard the first. That is a live data-loss path for the intended consumer, which appends to one manifest from parallel behavior-tree branches. Add FileUpdateLock, an RAII flock(2) over a `<file>.lock` sidecar, and hold it in both behaviors from before YAML::LoadFile through writeFileAtomically. The lock lives on a sidecar rather than the target because every atomic write replaces the target's inode, so a lock taken on it would be invisible to the next writer to open that path. flock is per-open-file-description, so this excludes concurrent ticks in one objective server as well as separate processes. Acquisition polls with a bounded wait instead of blocking in flock, so a stuck holder fails the tick with a diagnosis rather than hanging the tree. Factor the symlink resolution out of writeFileAtomically so the lock covers the same file the write replaces, and cover the new behavior with tests — including one that reproduces the lost-update it prevents.
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The Doxygen comments on WriteYamlValue and AppendYamlListItem still told readers that the load-edit-store is unserialized and that a file is expected to have a single writer. That stopped being true when the sidecar lock landed, and it is the kind of stale caveat a caller would architect around. The behaviors' runtime descriptions already said this; the headers now agree.
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Two behaviors for writing YAML from a behavior tree, companions to the existing
ReadYamlValue/ReadYamlList.WriteYamlValue
Sets a value at a nested key path (
key1..key5) in an existing YAML file. Intermediate maps are created if missing; an existing leaf is overwritten.AppendYamlListItem
Appends to a sequence at the same kind of key path. Creates the sequence if absent; fails the tick if the keyed location exists and is not a sequence.
Shared contract
Both take the file location as a single
file_pathport, which accepts an absolute path, an absolute path with${VAR}/ leading~expansion, or a ROSpackage://<pkg>/<rest>URL resolved viaament_index_cpp::get_package_share_directory. Expansion (include/experimental_behaviors/path_expansion.hpp) treats the input as one path rather than a shell word, so a name containing a space or a*is not split or globbed.The
valueport is parsed as YAML before being stored, so scalars, inline maps ({ option: A, success: false }) and sequences ([a, b, c]) all flow through one string port.Both round-trip through yaml-cpp on every tick — load, modify, dump — and neither creates files: a missing target fails the tick.
Durability and concurrency
include/experimental_behaviors/atomic_file_write.hppholds the two guarantees that make the round-trip safe, both exercised bytest/test_yaml_file_helpers.cpp:writeFileAtomicallywrites the dump to a uniquely named temporary in the destination's own directory (O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOFOLLOW, so a planted file or symlink can neither pre-empt nor redirect it), fsyncs, renames over the destination and fsyncs the directory. A reader sees the old file or the new one, never a truncated one, and a crash cannot leave a half-written target. A symlinked destination has its target replaced and the link left in place; an existing destination's permissions carry over. A rename that lands but cannot be made durable is reported as a warning, not a failure — the write already happened, so retrying it would apply the edit twice.FileUpdateLockserializes the load-modify-write itself, which atomicity alone does not: two writers could each load the same document and the second rename would discard the first edit. It is an RAIIflock(2)over a<file>.locksidecar — on a sidecar because every atomic write replaces the target's inode, so a lock taken on the target would be invisible to the next writer of that path.flockis per-open-file-description, so it excludes concurrent ticks within one objective server as well as separate processes. Acquisition polls with a bounded wait rather than blocking, so a stuck holder fails the tick with a diagnosis instead of hanging the tree.Build
Adds
yaml-cpp(linkedPRIVATE; no installed header includes it) andament_index_cppas dependencies, and atest_yaml_file_helpersgtest target for the shared helpers.