Extending cla wth commands

It's posible to write programs that extend the cla command with new functionality and leverages on the Clarive Platform for accessing agents, configuration items, and other functionality.

cla mycommand --myoptions

Getting started

By running the cla command, the list of available commands are listed.

$ cla
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usage: cla [-h] [-v] [--config file] command <command-args>

Commands available:

    <service.*>  run services
    config       config & options inherited, config file generator
    db           database diff and deploy tool
    disp         Start/Stop dispatcher
    docs         Manage the Clarive Documentation
    help         This help
    init         system Initialization
    lic          license verification
    migra        run migrations
    plugin       plugin utilities
    poll         monitoring tool
    profile      print default profile
    ps           list server processes
    queue        queue management tools
    replay       Replay
    setup        run setup profile
    smoke        smoke tests
    start        start all server tasks
    stop         stop all server tasks
    trans        conversion tool, password encryption
    version      report our version
    web          Start/Stop web server
    ws           webservices toolchain

cla help <command> to get all subcommands.
cla <command> -h for command options.

Adding new commands is done from within a plugin.

To create a new plugin, in case you don't have one already, run the plugin-bootstrap command:

cla plugin-new --plugin myplugin

Now create a command file, let's say we want to create the mycmd command, this would be the appropriate file:

CLARIVE_BASE/plugins/myplugin/cmd/mycmd.js

A command program is just a plain JS program:

print("Hello World");

Full command configuration

Although command-line options are available, the correct way to access the command configuration is by calling process.options(key), which retrieves the correct configuration value from a merged, comprehensive object, which includes:

• the global config YAML file
• the config YAML file (set with -c)
• the command section within the configuration file
• finally, the command line argument flags

Precedence goes from bottom to top.

The process.options(key) function accesses the merged options stack.

print( process.options('mongo.db_name') );

Command Arguments

The command-line arguments is sent to the program through the process variable:

console.log( process.argv() );

You can also access the individual options as an object, which is actually much easier to manipulate than going though the argv array.

var myoption = process.args('myoption');
print( "User entered --myoption=" + myoption );