Globalization Pipeline CLI for JavaScript

The GP Command Line Interface is modelled somewhat on the GP Java CLI. This CLI was part of the g11n-pipeline package prior to [email protected]

Installation

You can use the GP CLI to perform some operations from the commandline.

$ npm install -g @ibmcloud/gp-js-cli
$ gp-js-cli -j gpconfig.json ping
true

Using npx you do not even need to install @ibmcloud/gp-js-cli to run a one-off command.

$ npx @ibmcloud/gp-js-cli -j gpconfig.json ping
true

Usage

The CLI takes one 'verb' (action) which can appear anywhere in the command line. Options have a short or a long form. Therefore, the following are all equivalent.

    g11n-pipeline -j gpconfig.json ping
    g11n-pipeline ping -j gpconfig.json
    g11n-pipeline --jsonCredentials=gpconfig.json ping
    g11n-pipeline ping --jsonCredentials=gpconfig.json

Credentials

See also the getClient() API docs Credentials may be passed in one of the following ways:

1. Via the -j/--jsonCreds option, which takes a path to a JSON file with credentials 2a. For GP Auth: the four individual options --serviceUrl, --instanceId, --user, and --password 2b. for IAM auth via --iam_endpoint and --apikey

2. By the following environment variables:

   • GP_URL: Service URL (e.g. https://gp-rest.ng.bluemix.net/translate/rest)
   • GP_INSTANCE_ID: Service instance ID (e.g. d3f537cd617f34c86ac6b270f3065e73)

   • if using GP Authentication:

     • GP_USER_ID: User ID (e.g. e92a1282a0e4f97bec93aa9f56fdb838)
     • GP_PASSWORD: User password (e.g. zg5SlD+ftXYRIZDblLgEA/ILkkCNqE1y)

   • if using IAM Authentication:

     • GP_IAM_API_KEY: IAM API Key
     • GP_IAM_ENDPOINT: IAM endpoint (e.g. https://iam.cloud.ibm.com)

Common Options

• -j file.json | --jsonCredentials=file.json

  See Credentials, above.

  This option specifies a credentials file containing the GP credentials. This is a JSON file with any of the following formats:

  {"url":"≈",
   "instanceId":"≈",
   "userId":"≈",
   "password":"≈"}

  {"credentials":
     {"url":"≈",
      "instanceId":"≈",
      "userId":"≈",
      "password":"≈"}}

  {"url":"≈",
   "instanceId":"≈",
   "iam_endpoint":"≈",
   "apikey":"≈"}

  {"credentials":
     {"url":"≈",
      "instanceId":"≈",
      "iam_endpoint":"≈",
      "apikey":"≈"}}

• --serviceUrl, --instanceId, --user, --password

  See Credentials, above. These options specify the four credential parameters individually for GP Auth.

• --iam_endpoint, --apikey

  See Credentials, above. These options specify the two credential parameters individually for IAM Auth.

• -F json | --outputFormat=json

  This option specifies the eventual output format of the results of the CLI operation. (API note: This formatting is applied by the filter() function. run() does not interpret this option.)

  Possible formats:

  • compact (default)

    This format causes console.dir() to be used for output. It is more compact than JSON.

  • json

    Produce JSON output.

  • none

    Don’t produce any output (besides errors).

  • line

    Output in line-by-line mode, which could be useful for processing without parsing JSON:

    • For operations that return an array (such as list), output the array one element per line.

    • For operations that return an object (such as trs), outputs the keys one element per line.

Verbs

General Commands

• help

  Print help

• ping

  Indicate whether the server is reachable or not.

• info

  Prints general info about the GP service

• instanceInfo

  Prints information specific to your service instance (such as usage)

Bundle Commands

• list

  Return a list of bundles

• show -b mybundle

  Show detailed information about mybundle

• create -b mybundle -l en,es,fr

  Create bundle mybundle with source lang en and target languages es and fr. (The first language code is the source.)

• delete -b mybundle

  Delete bundle mybundle

• update -b mybundle -l es,fr,mt

  Update bundle mybundle to have target languages es, fr and mt

• import -b mybundle -l en -f mybundle.json

  Import mybundle.json to replace the en language content for bundle mybundle.

  For nested structure, use the -T option to flatten the keys using the g11n-pipeline-flatten component.

• export -b mybundle -l en -F json > mybundle.json

  Export bundle mybundle to disk as mybundle.json

  For nested structure, use the -T option to expand the keys using the g11n-pipeline-flatten component.

Translation Request Commands

• trs

  List the Translation Requests

• docTrs

  List the Document Translation Requests

API

The Command Line may be called from your own application code. The run() function returns a promise containing the output content. See API.md#Cli

// from a script (parse args)
const Cli = require('g11n-pipeline/lib/gpcli');
new Cli(Cli.parseArgs(process.argv)).run().then(…)

You can also preload the arguments:

const Cli = require('g11n-pipeline/lib/gpcli');
new Cli({_:['list'],jsonCreds:'creds.json'}).run().then((r) => console.dir(r));

Community

• View or file GitHub Issues
• Connect with the open source community on developerWorks Open

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.txt

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.