opal-azure-cli-interactive 0.4.4

Microsoft Azure Command-Line Interactive Shell

The interactive shell for Microsoft Azure CLI (Command Line Interface)

• Interactive Tutorials

• Lightweight Drop Down Completions

• Auto Cached Suggestions

• Dynamic parameter completion

• Defaulting scopes of commands

• On the fly descriptions of the commands AND parameters

• On the fly examples of how to utilize each command

• Optional “az” component

• Query the previous command

• Navigation of example pane

• Optional layout configurations

• Fun Colors

Running

To start the application

$ az shell

Then type your commands and hit [Enter]

To use commands outside the application

$ #[command]

To Search through the last command as json jmespath format for querying

$ ? [param]

Note: Only if the previous command dumps out json, e.g. vm list

To only see the commands for a command

$ %% [top-level command] [sub-level command] etc

To undefault a value

$ %% ..

Use Examples

Type a command, for example:

$ vm create

Look at the examples

Scroll through the pane with Control Y for up and Control N for down #

Pick the example you want with:

$ vm create :: [Example Number]

Dev Setup

Fork and clone repository

$ . dev_setup.py

To get the Exit Code of the previous command:

$ $

Clear History

Only clears the appended suggestion when you restart the shell

$ clear-history

Release History

0.4.4

• Minor fixes

0.4.3

• Minor fixes

0.4.2

• Fix incompatibility with Interactive extension installed through azdev.

0.4.1

• Minor fixes

0.4.0

• Interactive now installs the ‘interactive’ extension, which will allow for faster updates and support.

0.3.31

• Ensure global subscription parameter appears in parameters.

0.3.30

• Fix error found on windows where commands fail to run properly.

0.3.29

• Fix command loading problem in interactive that was caused by deprecated objects.

0.3.28

• Minor fixes

0.3.27

• Minor fixes

0.3.26

• Minor fixes

0.3.25

• Update PyYAML dependency to 4.2b4

0.3.24

• Minor fixes

0.3.23

• Minor fixes

0.3.22

• Fix dependency versions.

0.3.21

• Mute logging from parser for completions.

• Made interactive more resistant to stale/corrupted help caches.

0.3.20

• Allow interactive completers to function with positional arguments.

• More user-friendly output when users type ‘'.

• Fix completions for parameters with no help.

• Fix descriptions for command-groups.

0.3.19

• Stops completions upon unrecognized commands.

• Add event hooks before and after command subtree is created.

• Allow completions for –ids parameters.

• sdist is now compatible with wheel 0.31.0

0.3.18

• Completions kick in as soon as command table loading is done.

• Fix bug with using –style parameter.

• Interactive lexer instantiated after command table dump if missing.

• Improvements to completer support.

0.3.17

• Persist history across different sessions

• Fixed history while in scope

• Updates to interactive telemetry

• Fixed progress meter for long running operations

• Completions more robust to command table exceptions

0.3.16

• Fix issue where user is prompted to login when using interactive mode in Cloud Shell.

• Fixed regression with missing parameter completions.

0.3.15

• Fixed issue where command option completions no longer appeared.

0.3.14

• Clean up unused test files

0.3.13

• Fix issue where interactive would not start on Python 2.

• Fix errors on start up

• Fix some commands not running in interactive mode

0.3.12

• Update for CLI core changes.

0.3.11

• minor fixes

0.3.10 (2017-09-22)

• minor fixes

0.3.9 (2017-08-31)

• minor fixes

0.3.8 (2017-08-28)

• minor fixes

0.3.7 (2017-07-27)

• Improves the start up time by using cached commands

• Increase test coverage

0.3.5 (2017-06-21)

• Enhance the ‘?’ gesture to also inject into the next command

0.3.4 (2017-06-13)

• Fixes Interactive errors with the profile 2017-03-09-profile-preview (#3587)

• Allows ‘–version’ as a parameter for interactive mode (#3645)

• Stop Interactive Mode from Throwing errors from Validation completions (#3570)

• Progress Reporting for template deployments (#3510)

0.3.3 (2017-05-30)

• –progress flag

• Removed –debug and –verbose from completions

0.3.2 (2017-05-18)

• Bug fixes.

• Remove ‘interactive’ from completions (#3324)

0.3.1 (2017-05-09)

• Add link to blog in ‘az interactive —help’ (#3252)

0.3.0 (2017-05-05)

• Integrate interactive into az

• Colors Options

• Rename ‘shell’ => ‘interactive’

0.2.1

• CLI Performance changes integrated

0.2.0

• Public Preview release

0.1.1

• Preview release