LiveAPICreatorAdminCLI

Description

This is a command-line tool to administer API Creator servers. It allows the creation, modification and deletion of many common objects, such as projects, database connection, resources and rules.

Installation

npm install liveapicreator-admin-cli -g

note: MAC users may need to use $sudo npm install ...

Please note that, on Windows (and sometimes Mac), npm install will create an executable called liveapicreatoradmin (or lacadmin as a shortcut) in your {userhome}/<node_modules>/.bin directory. If this directory is not in your PATH, you will probably want to fix that, otherwise you'll have to specify the full path to the executable. You can also try npm install liveapicreator-admin-cli -g

Login

liveapicreatoradmin login <url> -u <user-name> -p <password> [-a <alias>]

Parameters

The URL will normally be the address of the server, such as:

http://localhost:8080
http://localhost:8080/APIServer
http://api.acme.com

If you specify an alias, then you will be able to refer to that connection using that alias. This is useful if you plan to work with several servers at the same time.

Regardless, this command sets your current server -- see the use command below.

Example

$ liveapicreatoradmin login https://api.acme.com -u fred -p secret
Logging in...
This server licensed to: Acme Inc.
Login successful, API key will expire on: 2014-11-27T03:36:55.266Z

Command Line Service

$ liveapicreatoradmin --help

  Usage: liveapicreatoradmin [options] [command]

  Commands:

    login [options] <url>  -alias [alias name]                       Login to an API Creator server using an alias name (multiple connections can be active)
    logout [options] [url] -alias [alias name]                       Logout from the current server, or an alias specific server 
    use <alias name>                                                 Use the specified login aliasserver by default
    status                                                           Show the current server, and any defined server aliases
    project <list|create|update|delete|use|import|export>            Administer API Projects
    datasources <list|create|update|delete|import|export>  			 Administer datasources (database connections) within a project.
    resource <list|create|delete|import|export>                      Administer resources within a project.
    rule  <list|create|delete|import|export>                		 Administer rules within a project.
    authprovider <list|create|delete|import|export>        			 Administer authentication providers for an account.
    libraries <list|create|update|delete|import|export|linkProject>  Administer user libraries for an account and link to project.
    apioptions <list|update|import|export>                   		 Administer API project options for an API Project.

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

Logout

liveapicreatoradmin logout [-a <alias>]

This will log you out of the current server, unless you specify an alias, in which case you will be logged out of that server.

Use

liveapicreatoradmin use <alias>

This switches the current server to the specified alias.

Status

liveapicreatoradmin status

Prints which server is the current server (if any) and project, and what aliases are defined (if any).

Output

Defined aliases:
┌───────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────┐
│ Alias │ Server                                                │ User  │
├───────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│ api   │ http://api.acme.com/rest/abl/admin/v2                 │ admin │
└───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────┘
You are currently logged in to admin server: http://acme.my.server.com/rest/abl/admin/v2 as user acme
Current project is: Acme Sales [1234] - url_name: sales

Sample Export Script

You can combine each command to export parts of your system into components that can later be used in source control and then promoted to different servers.

#! /bin/bash
# Export Script for Northwind Jetty

mkdir nw
## Export from local server
liveapicreatoradmin logout -a local
liveapicreatoradmin login -u admin -p Password1 http://localhost:8080 -a local
liveapicreatoradmin use local

# Projects
liveapicreatoradmin project list
liveapicreatoradmin project use --url_name nwind
liveapicreatoradmin project export --url_name nwind --file nw/nwind.json

#API Optins
liveapicreatoradmin apioptions list
liveapicreatoradmin apioptions export --file nw/apioptions.json

# Data Sources
liveapicreatoradmin datasource list
liveapicreatoradmin datasource export --prefix nw --file nw/derby_ds.json

#Libraries
liveapicreatoradmin libraries list
liveapicreatoradmin libraries export --ident 2100 --file nw/auth_libraries.json

#Auth Providers
liveapicreatoradmin authprovider list
liveapicreatoradmin authprovider export --ident 2100 --file nw/nw_authprovider.json

#Rules
liveapicreatoradmin rule list --verbose
liveapicreatoradmin rule export --file nw/rules.json

#Resources
liveapicreatoradmin resource list
liveapicreatoradmin resource export --file nw/resources.json

#liveapicreatoradmin logout -a local

##Import

#! /bin/bash
# import Script for Northwind Jetty

## Logon to local  Jetty server (if WAR file use http://localhost:8080/APIServer) 
liveapicreatoradmin logout -a local
liveapicreatoradmin login -u admin -p Password1 http://localhost:8080 -a local
liveapicreatoradmin use local

#Libraries - need to import these before import of JSON project
#We can create the Library and use an existing JS library.  To update / delete and recreate.
#liveapicreatoradmin libraries create --name RestAuthProviderJS  --comments RESTAuthProvider js Demo --shortName restauth --libtype javascript --ver 1.0 --file nw/RESTAuthSecurityProvider.js
liveapicreatoradmin libraries import --file nw/auth_libraries.json
liveapicreatoradmin libraries list

# Projects - this is the default NorthWind JSON project
liveapicreatoradmin project import --file nw/nwind.json
liveapicreatoradmin project list

#API API Options [Optional]
liveapicreatoradmin apioptions list
liveapicreatoradmin apioptions import --file nw/apioptions.json

# Data Sources [optional] for other databases - set the password
liveapicreatoradmin datasource list
#liveapicreatoradmin datasource update --prefix nw --password password1 -- Jetty does not use pw

#Auth Providers - lets create a new one and link it to the current project
liveapicreatoradmin authprovider list
liveapicreatoradmin authprovider create --name RESTAuthSecurityProviderCreate --createFunction LDAPAuthProviderCreate --paramMap logonApiKey=Lvnq9CYXN5oYoiToWGkN,loginBaseURL=http://localhost:8080/rest/default/nwind/v1/nw%3AEmployees,loginGroupURL=http://localhost:8080/rest/default/nwind/v1/nw%3ARegion --comments Uses NW Employees for REST Validation
liveapicreatoradmin authprovider linkProject --name RESTAuthSecurityProviderCreateJS

#Rules [optional] - this will export each rule in a single JSON file, but the --verbose will output each rule for create
liveapicreatoradmin rule list --verbose
#liveapicreatoradmin rule import --file nw/rules.json

#Resources [optional]
liveapicreatoradmin resource list
#liveapicreatoradmin resource import --file nw/resources.json

#close connections
liveapicreatoradmin logout -a local

Object-specific commands

Follow the links below for detailed documentation on specific administrator commands.

• Projects
• Authentication Providers
• Datasources
• Resources
• Rules
• Libraries
• API Options