Merge pull request #37 from sirinek/bugfix/checkfile

create a blank patching.json file if it does not exist

Author: nmaludy

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## Development
 
+* Ensure the patching.json file exists by creating a blank file if it was previously missing.
+
+  Contributed by Bill Sirinek (@sirinek)
+
 * use 'name' instead of 'host' to better represent targets in inventory
 
   Contributed by Vadym Chepkov (@vchepkov)

tasks/update_history_windows.ps1

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ if ($result_file -eq '') {
   $result_file = 'C:\ProgramData\patching\log\patching.json'
 }
 
+# if the result file does not exist, create it
+if (-not (Test-Path $result_file)) {
+  New-Item -ItemType "file" -Path (Split-Path -Path $result_file) -Name (Split-Path -Path $result_file -Leaf) | Out-Null
+}
+
 $pattern_matches = Select-String -Path $result_file -Pattern "^{$"
 if ($pattern_matches) {
   # get the LAST matching line number of { , the start of a JSON document