dvcli

An experiment in creating an all-in-one CLI application for using and administrating Dataverse

See also community mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dataverse-community/etN5URWos44

Installation

This tool requires Python v3.8 or newer.

For now, being an experiment without any releases, simply:

pip install git+https://github.com/gdcc/dvcli.git

Plugins

A list of available plugins, which extend dvcli in fields beyond core scope:

• Kubernetes: https://github.com/poikilotherm/dvcli-plugin-k8s

Development

• (Optional) Install pre-commit if not already present on your system.
• git clone this repository
• (Optional) Install commit hooks for pre-commit via pre-commit install
• Install poetry as your build system
• Run poetry install (creates a virtual environment for you, too)
• Run poetry run dvcli
• When hacking on the files, there is no need to re-run the install, only when changing dependencies.

Configuration

All parameters, options etc for any command can be given via:

1. Defaults (within the app)
2. YAML configuration file in operating system locations
3. YAML configuration file at any arbitrary location (use --config or DVCLI_CONFIG=...)
4. Environment variable with prefix DVCLI_
5. Commandline option.

The order of appearance above corresponds to the priority of the source, lowest to highest. Values are merged according to their priority. Key hashes in YAML files are merged, but not arrays or hash values (so no deep merge).

Ideas

• Can be extended by others using a standard python plugin mechanism via entry points. More extensive documentation to come, you can take a look at this codebase as an example.
• Create a command to set database configuration options in an idempotent manner.
• Maybe add a XML generator for JVM options to ease their configuration?