apimatic-cli 1.3

A command line interface for APIMatic.

Overview

This command line tool serves as a wrapper over APIMatic’s Python SDK allowing API providers to generate deployment ready SDKs of their APIs for ten platforms using a single command. The following functions are supported:

• Generate an SDK

• Validate an API description

• Transform an API description

Installation

The quickest way is to install this tool as a package from pip:

pip install --upgrade apimatic-cli

If you prefer not to use pip, you can install it manually as well:

git clone https://github.com/apimatic/apimatic-cli.git
cd apmiatic-cli
python setup.py test
python setup.py install

Alternatively, you can run this tool without installation:

git clone https://github.com/apimatic/apimatic-cli.git
cd apmiatic-cli
pip install -r requirements.txt

It’s highly recommended to use a virtual enviroment if you choose to go this way.

Usage

If you installed using pip, you can simply invoke the tool by typing:

apimatic-cli -h

Otherwise, if you chose not to install, make sure you’re in the root folder of the repository and type:

python -m apimaticcli -h

To use this tool, you have to provide two positional arguments:

• command (generate, validate or transform)

• authentication type (fromkey or fromuser)

For information about further required or optional arguments, you can type -h as follows:

apimatic-cli generate fromkey -h

Options

Here is a list of all available options. You’re going to be using a subset of these depending on the positional arguments you use.

-h or --help                 Displays the help text and exists.
--api-key                    The API key of the API description obtained from APIMatic.
--platform                   The platform for which the SDK needs to be generated. It can be one of:
                             cs_portable_net_lib, java_eclipse_jre_lib, java_gradle_android_lib,
                             objc_cocoa_touch_ios_lib, angular_javascript_lib, ruby_generic_lib,
                             python_generic_lib, php_generic_lib, node_javascript_lib, go_generic_lib
--download-to                The path of the folder in which to download the file.
--name                       The name of the generated SDK.
--email                      The email address of the user's APIMatic account.
--password                   The password of the user's APIMatic account.
--url                        The URL of the API description.
--file                       The path of the API description file.
--format                     The format to convert the API description to. It can be one of:
                             APIBluePrint, Swagger10, Swagger20, SwaggerYaml, WADL2009, RAML, APIMATIC
--download-as                The name (and extension) of the downloaded file.
--skip-unzip                 Unzipping of downloaded SDKs is skipped if this option is used.

Examples

Generate a C# SDK using an API integretation key:

apimatic-cli generate fromkey --api-key <your key> --platform cs_portable_net_lib --download-to ./SDKs

Generate a Python SDK using user credentials and an API description file and skip unzipping:

apimatic-cli generate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --name TestSDK --file ./data/calculator.json --platform python_generic_lib --download-to ./SDKs --skip-unzip

Generate a Ruby SDK using user credentials and an API description URL and rename the downloaded SDK:

apimatic-cli generate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --name TestSDK --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json --platform ruby_generic_lib --download-to ./SDKs --download-as CustomName

Validate an API description using an API integration key:

apimatic-cli validate fromkey --api-key <your key>

Validate an API description using user credentials and an API description file:

apimatic-cli validate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --file ./data/calculator.json

Validate an API description using user credentials and an API description URL:

apimatic-cli validate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json

Transform an API description to API Blueprint 1A format using an API integretation key:

apimatic-cli transform fromkey --api-key <your key> --format APIBluePrint

Transform an API description to APIMatic format using user credentials and an API description file:

apimatic-cli transform fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --file ./data/calculator.raml --format APIMATIC

Transform an API description to Swagger v2.0 (YAML) format using user credentials and an API description URL:

apimatic-cli transform fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json --format SwaggerYaml