This content is part of a third party extension that is not supported by the Cake project. For more information about this extension see Cake.Hosts.

Summary

Functionalty to operate hosts-file. Requres admin permissions and will probably fail on your general CI server.

Mostly aimed on automation scripts rather than actual project builds.

Install via:

#addin "nuget:?package=Cake.Hosts"

Assembly

Cake.Hosts.dll

Namespace

Cake.Hosts

Base Types

graph BT Type-->Base0["Object"] Type["CakeHostsAliases"] class Type type-node

Syntax

public static class CakeHostsAliases

Type	Description
CakeNamespaceImportAttribute
CakeAliasCategoryAttribute

Name	Value	Summary
AddHostsRecord(ICakeContext, string, string)	void	Appends a record to the end of hosts file. If this value already exist, no modifications applied static
HostsRecordExists(ICakeContext, string, string)	bool	Checks if a record already exists in hosts file static
RemoveHostsRecord(ICakeContext, string, string)	void	Removes a line with given IP address and domain name. If given pair does not exist in hosts file, no modifications applied static

Name	Value	Summary
ToDictionary()	IDictionary<string, object>	From ObjectHelpers Requires the Cake.DeployParams addin