Usergrid Command Line (ugc)

ugc enables convenient terminal access to Apigee's App Services (aka Usergrid).

• Multiple connection/login profiles
• Simple syntax to Usergrid data
• Will automatically perform paging on long query results
• Use relative or absolute URLs
• Convenient path reference '@n' to previous list entities
• Easy-to-read tabular output
• Simplified json-generating syntax for data (key: 'value')
• Ruby evaluation within data elements
• Can optionally emits raw output (--verbose switch)
• Extended SQL syntax (adds 'from' and 'limit' clauses to standard Usergrid syntax)
• File upload (-f or --file option) on PUT and POST
• Emit curl equivalent for all REST commands

$ gem install ugc

Note: Requires Ruby 1.9.3+ or Ruby 2.0+. If you have issues, check your version:

$ ruby -v

If necessary, install a new version of Ruby. RVM is recommended:

$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

delete              - delete an entity
get, show, ls, list - retrieve and display a collection or entity
help                - Shows a list of commands or help for one command
login               - Performs a login to the current profile
post, create        - non-idempotent create or update (post is usually create)
profile, profiles   - set the current profile (creates if it doesn't exist)
put, update         - idempotent create or update (put is usually an update)
query               - query (uses sql-like syntax)
target              - set the base url, org, and app for the current profile

$ ugc profile apigee

$ ugc target base https://api.usergrid.com
base_url = https://api.usergrid.com

$ ugc target organization scottganyo
organization = scottganyo

$ ugc target app messagee
application = messagee

$ ugc target url https://api.usergrid.com/scottganyo/messagee
base_url = https://api.usergrid.com
organization = scottganyo
application = messagee

(Note the user in this case is an admin user)

$ ugc login --admin scott@ganyo.com
password: **********
logged in user: scott@ganyo.com

$ ugc profile apigee
Set active profile:
 *apigee
    base_url: https://api.usergrid.com
    organization: scottganyo
    application: messagee
    access_token: YWMtKgZnO1ULEeKKqQLoGuZA3AAAATwesjMsUYmz_ZGk8vkTwp0lh66Cv_CCEM4

$ ugc list collections
title      count      name       type
Assets     0          assets     asset
Users      0          users      user
Events     0          events     event
Roles      3          roles      role
Folders    0          folders    folder
Activities 0          activities activity
Devices    0          devices    device
Groups     0          groups     group

What? No dogs? A travesty!

(Note the use of simplified json syntax)

$ ugc create dog "breed: 'Black Mouth Cur', name: 'Old Yeller'"
name     value
uuid     91833fd9-56c5-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581
name     Old Yeller
created  1357341732438
modified 1357341732438
breed    Black Mouth Cur

(Note use of square brackets to create an array of dogs)

$ ugc create dogs "[{ name: 'Tramp' },{ breed: 'Cocker Spaniel', name: 'Lady' }]"
#  uuid                                 name  created       modified      breed
1  79dfb563-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581 Tramp 1357344269759 1357344269759
2  79e11500-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581 Lady  1357344269768 1357344269768 Cocker Spaniel

All the created dogs were returned as a list.

(Note use of @1 to reference the 1st row from the previous list.)

$ ugc show @1
name     value
uuid     79dfb563-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581
name     Tramp
created  1357344269759
modified 1357344269768

Note synonym commands:

$ ugc show dogs/79dfb563-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581
$ ugc show dogs/Tramp

(Note use of standard json data)

$ ugc update @1 '{ "breed" : "Mixed" }'
name     value
uuid     79dfb563-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581
name     Tramp
created  1357344269759
modified 1357344537483
breed    Mixed

If you have more than ten dogs, it might be easier to target your specific dog when you update it:

ugc update dogs/79dfb563-56cb-11e2-a6b8-14109fd49581 '{ "breed" : "Mixed" }'

$ ugc query dogs 'select name, breed where modified >= 1357344269768'
#  name     breed
1  Einstein Mixed
2  Lady     Cocker Spaniel

Note: with ugc, you can also use extended sql syntax...

$ ugc query 'select name, breed from dogs where modified >= 1357344269768 limit 1'
#  name     breed
1  Einstein Mixed

If you specify column names in your query, you will be unable to reference the returned rows by @1 reference in later commands. (The current Usergrid implementation doesn't return any metadata for the entries.) In addition, for your safety the history will be cleared so that you don't inadvertently reference entities from a previous list.

• Bug Fixes
  1. fix setting profile & target configurations
• Misc
  1. Add license to gem

• New features
  1. logout (remove access_token)
  2. no longer force log in - as it's not always necessary
  3. get (ls) command now defaults to list collections when no arguments
• Bug fixes
  1. updated to work with latest gli (> 2.6)

• Bug Fixes
  1. allow headers to vary during paging

• Bug Fixes
  1. url encode url for curl

• Bug Fixes
  1. Allow for complex matrixed queries including spaces

• New features
  1. Emit curl equivalent commands with -c (--curl) switch
  • eg. $ ugc -c get something

• New features
  1. file upload function with -f (--file) switch
  • eg. $ ugc post something "property1Name: 'property1Value'" --file property2Name=/path/to/myfile

• New features
  1. access management functions with -m (--management) global switch
  • eg. $ ugc -m get orgs/my-org

• New features
  1. allow non-interactive password on login (-p or --password)
• Bug fixes
  1. fix display issue with assign query (select {user:username} from...)

• New features
  1. path reference '@n' in commands to previous list entities
     • eg. $ ugc put @1 foo: 'bar'
  2. added --no-border flag
  3. added rm alias for delete
• Bug fixes
  1. lock required version of usergrid_iron

• New features
  1. Ruby eval of data in put and post commands
     • eg. may now use key: 'value' for json instead of {"key": "value"}
  2. Added alias: 'show' for 'get'
  3. Made 'list' an alias of 'get' and updated get to include 'list' functionality
  4. smart column width for entities
  5. Added aliases 'create' and 'update' for 'post' and 'put' (yes, I am aware this isn't technically correct)

• New features
  1. smart column widths for collections
  2. add "limit" keyword to sql syntax
• Bug fixes
  1. fixed issue with selecting a single column
  2. fixed formatting of entities with heterogeneous attributes

• Bug fixes
  1. include Gemfile.lock to ensure correct version of usergrid_iron is used

• New features
  1. support for query result paging

Copyright (c) 2013 Scott Ganyo

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