added option to include comments with records

- changed -c option to <comment>
- added -r option for <record> (this was old -c option)

bin/pdns-record-rep.sh

@@ -13,15 +13,18 @@ help()
   echo "$thisfilename"
   echo "Replace Resource Record set in zone."
   echo ""
-  echo "usage: $thisfilename -z <zone> -n <name> -t <type> -c <content> [-l <ttl>] [-s <status>] [-h]"
+  echo "usage: $thisfilename -z <zone> -n <name> -t <type> -r <record> [-l <ttl>] [-s <status>] [-c <comment>] [-a <account>] [-h]"
   echo ""
   echo "  -h            Print this help."
   echo "  -z <zone>     Zone (domain name) to modify records."
   echo "  -n <name>     Hostname for this record."
   echo "  -t <type>     Type of record to modify (A, CNAME, TXT, etc.)."
-  echo "  -c <content>  Resource record content (data / values)."
+  echo "  -r <record>   Resource record content (data / values)."
   echo "  -l <ttl>      TTL, optional, defaults to $zone_defaults_ttl."
   echo "  -s <0|1>      Status, optional. O (default) for active or 1 for disabled."
+  echo "  -c <comment>  An optional comment/note about the record."
+  echo "  -a <account>  The account that the comment gets attributed too."
+  echo "                Only used if comment is set. Optional, defaults to hostname of server running this script."
   echo
   echo "                If record(s) do not exist they are created, if they already exist they are replaced."
   echo "                Record Sets are matched against zone, name & type. This tool updates/replaces all records"
@@ -124,11 +127,23 @@ if [[ $zone_status = 200 ]]; then
 
     if [[ $records_count < $resourcerecords_records_count ]]; then
       data="$data,"
+    else
+      data="$data]"
     fi
 
   done
 
-  data="$data]}]}"
+  # add comment, if set
+  if [[ -n $comment ]]; then
+    # set account to hostname if not specified with -a option
+    if [[ -z $account ]]; then
+      account=$(/usr/bin/hostname -f)
+    fi
+    data= "$data,\"comments\":[{\"content\":\"$comment\",\"account\":\"$account\"}]"
+  fi
+
+  # close out json string
+  data="$data}]}"
 
   # add record(s)
   zone_status=$(/usr/bin/curl --silent --request PATCH --output "/tmp/$zone" --write-out "%{http_code}" --header "X-API-Key: $api_key" --data "$data" "$api_base_url/zones/$zone")

bin/pdns.sh

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ function pdns::yesno() {
 
 function pdns:getoptions () {
   local OPTIND
-  while getopts "hbz:m:t:a:n:c:l:s:x" opt ; do
+  while getopts "hbz:m:t:a:n:r:c:l:s:x" opt ; do
     case "${opt}" in
         h ) # display help and exit
           help
@@ -150,8 +150,11 @@ function pdns:getoptions () {
         n ) # name - hostname for this record
           name=${OPTARG,,}
           ;;
-        c ) # content - record data
+        r ) # record data
-          content=${OPTARG}
+          record=${OPTARG}
+          ;;
+        c ) # comment - a note about the record
+          comment=${OPTARG}
           ;;
         l ) # ttl - Time To Live
           ttl=${OPTARG}