yq replace a value with another value of a map

Question

  myFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myFunction
      Handler: myFunction.lambda_handler

  myOtherFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myOtherFunction
      Handler: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler

I want to run a yq command such that for every Type:AWS::Serverless::Function resources, I'd like to grab the value of the Handler and make another attribute under properties called Environment.Variables.HANDLER .

I have following command so far.
yq '(.Resources.[] | select(.Type=="AWS::Serverless::Function") |.Properties.Environment.Variables.HANDLER) += (.Resources.[].Properties.Handler)' test.yaml

Which ends up with

  myFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myFunction
      Handler: myFunction.lambda_handler
      Environment:
      Variables:
        HANDLER: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler # This is wrong

  myOtherFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myOtherFunction
      Handler: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler
      Environment:
        Variables:
          HANDLER: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler

Where Environment.Variables.HANDLER is replaced with myOtherFunction 's Handler for all the functions. How do I respectively grab the value from the particular resource to be replaced?

Answer 1

Use the update operator |= whenever you want to stay in context.

.Resources[]
  |= select(.Type=="AWS::Serverless::Function").Properties
    |= .Environment.Variables.HANDLER = .Handler

Or use the with function:

with(
  .Resources[] | select(.Type=="AWS::Serverless::Function").Properties;
  .Environment.Variables.HANDLER = .Handler
)

Both evaluate to:

Resources:
  myFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myFunction
      Handler: myFunction.lambda_handler
      Environment:
        Variables:
          HANDLER: myFunction.lambda_handler
  myOtherFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: myOtherFunction
      Handler: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler
      Environment:
        Variables:
          HANDLER: myOtherFunction.lambda_handler

Note: In your approach, using .Resources.[] a second time started iterating all over again, so all matching items received the last value fetched.