ManifestMerger

ManifestMerger.py

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import glob
import sys
import os

class ManifestMerger(object):
    def __init__(self, app_manifest, filenames):
        assert len(filenames) > 0, 'No filenames!'
        ET.register_namespace("android", "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android")
        print app_manifest
        self.app_root = ET.parse(app_manifest).getroot()
        self.roots = [ET.parse(f).getroot() for f in filenames if not os.path.samefile(f, app_manifest)]

    def merge(self):

        for r in self.roots:
            self.merge_element(self.app_root, r)
        return ET.tostring(self.app_root)

    def merge_element(self, one, other):
        """
        This function recursively merge the xmls
        """
        mapping = {el.tag: el for el in one}

        for el in other:
            if len(el) == 0:
                try:
                    #These two tags didn't merge
                    if (el.tag == "activity" or el.tag == "uses-permission"):
                        one.append(el)
                except KeyError:
                    mapping[el.tag] = el
                    one.append(el)
            else:
                try:
                    self.merge_element(mapping[el.tag], el)
                except KeyError:
                    mapping[el.tag] = el
                    one.append(el)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main_folder = str(sys.argv[1])
        main_manifest = str(sys.argv[2])
    except:
        print """
        plz pass the path of trunk and app/AndroidManifest.xml
        python ManifestMerge.py ./ app/AndroidManifest.xml
        """
        exit(0)

    r = ManifestMerger(main_folder + main_manifest, glob.glob(main_folder + "**/AndroidManifest.xml")).merge()
    with open("MergedAndroidManifest.xml", "w") as outfile:
        outfile.write(r)