Feature #185
Create Command Line Tool for Accessing CITk Catalogue
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 2013-09-17 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Thorsten Schodde | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | - | Spent time: | 21.00 hours | |
| Target version: | - |
Description
When one starts really working with the CITk and its software, I wonder if besides access with a web-browser a command line tool is useful. The rationale is that it makes information lookup (and potentially further operations) much more convenient in a developers (or other automated) workflows.
So, for instance, I usually have the issue to fire up my browser to check documentation, SVN or other links. Much better would be to do this from the command line, e.g., to continue working with an SVN link or open the target documentation directly in the browser from the script.
To play around with this, I created an initial Python module that works on top of the JSON data available through the web interface. Please note, that this is a very early prototype but it allows already to lookup basic information as shown in the following:
Sebastians-MacBook-Air:citk-tool swrede$ citk-tool --query='*flobi*' before tk Component path: /Users/swrede/Workspace/citk-tool/data/components.json Found 3 matching toolkit entites: ================================= https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/components/actuation/flobis-oculomotor-control https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/components/communication/flobi-library https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/components/manipulation/flobi-server ----- Flobi's Oculomotor Control Author: https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/user/649 Source: https://projects.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/svn/flobi/apps/focus/ Homepage: N/A ----- Flobi Library Author: https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/user/435 Source: https://code.ai.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/scm/ai/software/flobilib Homepage: https://projects.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/projects/flobi ----- Flobi Server Author: https://toolkit.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/user/435 Source: https://code.ai.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/scm/ai/software/flobi-server/trunk Homepage: https://projects.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/projects/flobi
It contains some hacks (and needs cleanup as well as extension) but some aspects already raise general questions about the http-based API of the toolkit (like if there is a server-side search-function that returns a list of references).
Anyway: If the general idea is appreciated, I'd check in the current code.
History
#1
Updated by Florian Lier over 8 years ago
I'll be working on that
#2
Updated by Florian Lier over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Thorsten Schodde
As discussed with thorsten he will implement this.
#3
Updated by Thorsten Schodde over 8 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 90
#4
Updated by Thorsten Schodde over 8 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 90 to 100