Tender CLI

A command line tool for interacting with ENTP's Tender API.

Installation

Install with npm:

$ npm install -g tender-cli

If you don't already have Node.js installed, download and install it first.

Usage

Usage: tender [options] [command]

Commands:

  list [options]         List discussions with optional filters

Options:

  -h, --help                   output usage information
  -V, --version                output the version number
  -u, --username <name>        set Tender username
  -p, --pass <password>        set Tender password
  -a, --api <token>            set Tender API token
  -d, --subdomain <subdomain>  set Tender subdomain name

Basic example

$ tender list --state pending

┌──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ Id       │ Title                                       │ Author         │ State    │ Age      │
├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1234567  │ Login issue                                 │ John Smith     │ pending  │ 1 hour   │
├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1234567  │ All of my permissions are gone!             │ Jane Smith     │ pending  │ 2 days   │
└──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

Authentication

Authentication via username/password or API token are both supported. These can either be specified on the command line itself or stored in a .tenderrc file located in your home directory. The file should follow the below format, though note that only username/password or token are required, not both.

{
  "subdomain": "your-sub-domain",
  "username": "[email protected]",
  "password": "supersecret",
  "token": "your-api-token",
}

Example of command line auth:

$ tender list --subdomain your-sub-domain --token your-api-token

Listing discussions

Usage: list [options]

Options:

  -h, --help             output usage information
  -q, --queue <name>     filter by queue
  -s, --state <name>     filter by state
  -c, --category <name>  filter by category
  -t, --title <pattern>  filter by title pattern
  -m, --max <number>     max records to retrieve (defaults to 1000)
  -r, --reporter <name>  Specify the reporter to use
  -o, --output <name>    specify file name for csv reporters 
  --reporters            List available reporters

Several filters and reporters are available for selecting discussions. Below are examples of some common filtering actions.

List all pending discussions

$ tender list -s pending

List all open discussions in "Test" queue

$ tender list -s open -q test

List discussions in the "Bar" queue with "Foo" in the title

$ tender list -t foo -q bar

List all assigned discussions in the "Problems" category

$ tender list -c problems -s assigned

Discussion reporters

Table

This reporter displays discussions in a table format with a few key columns. This is the default reporter.

┌──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ Id       │ Title                                       │ Author         │ State    │ Age      │
├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1234567  │ Login issue                                 │ John Smith     │ pending  │ 1 hour   │
├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1234567  │ All of my permissions are gone!             │ Jane Smith     │ pending  │ 2 days   │
└──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

Basic

This reporter displays a very simple list of discussion ids and titles.

(2) discussions: 

#1234567: Login issue
#1234567: All of my permissions are gone!

List

This reporter outputs a vertical list of discussions with a few key fields.

Displaying (2) discussions: 

Discussion #1234567
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Title  : Login issue
State  : pending
Author : John Smith
Age    : 1 hour

Discussion #1234567
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Title  : All of my permissions are gone!
State  : pending
Author : Jane Smith
Age    : 2 days 

JSON

This reporter will output a JSON file with all available columns. The file name defaults to tender_output.jsonin the current working directory, but can be specified with the --output command line option.

CSV

This reporter will output a CSV file with the same columns as the default Table reporter. The file name defaults to tender_output.csv in the current working directory, but can be specified with the --output command line options.

CSVFull

Same as above, but will output all available columns.

Running the tests

To run the test suite, invoke the following commands in the repository:

$ npm install
$ npm test

Please note that the majority of the tests rely on a live Tender API account in order to execute. To set up the test data for your account, create a .tenderrc configuration file as shown above and add a testData object with the following keys:

• queue - The name of a queue in your account.
• category - The name of a category in your account.
• user - The full name of a user belonging to your Tender account.
• userId - The id of a user belonging to your Tender account.
• discussionId - The id of any discussion belonging to your account
• pattern - A regexp pattern that will match the title of at least one Open discussion on your account.

Example .tenderrc for testing:

{
  "subdomain": "your-sub-domain",
  "token": "your-api-token",
  "testData" : {
    "queue" : "Test queue",
    "category" : "Test category",
    "user" : "Charles Moncrief",
    "userId" : "12345",
    "discussionId" : "12345",
    "pattern" : "xyz"
  }
}

All tests perform read operations only. No data will be modified.