Checker CLI

Checker command line interface is a command line application mainly for the vagrant user to simplify code checking for holberton projects by bring a terminal result with colors to live the fantasy of the checker

Installation

Installing NodeJs

Checker command line is node js application you need to install Node js in your machine to access and intsall checker-cli

• Installing NodeJs via the terminal:

sudo apt install npm

• Installing NodeJs via the website

visit the link bellow to start download NodeJs from the nodeJs official website

NodeJs

Using NPM package manager

Holberton checker command line interface is now as node js package you can run it as one of the npm package

npm install -g hol-checker-cli

If you still like the old way check below from github repository

Clone the repository

Clone the current repository in your machine

git clone https://github.com/KoeusIss/checker_cli.git ~/checker_cli

after the repository loaded in your machine go to the directory of the repo and run

cd ~/checker_cli
npm install -g .

Now enjoy your command line checker in your own computer

Usage

The checker-cli is project based application whenever you create a new project and you are sure that holberton checker is available you need to initialize the checker-cli in your project directory

$ checker init

this command will create .checker file in your project directory wich hold all your information, credentials and history. keep in mind that in this early beta version of the application you need to handle the security of your information manually. we are working on in the very soon release.

in order to get the list of available command ask for help

$ checker help

Usage: checker <command>

Commands:
  checker configure <key> [value]  Set the configuration variable  [aliases: config, cfg]
  checker init                     Initialize a project directory
  checker authenticate             Open connection on the intranet  [aliases: auth]
  checker tasks                    Find the different tasks of the project  [aliases: tsk]
  checker ask <taskId>             ask for correction
  checker correction <taskId>      Get correction of a given task  [aliases: corr]

Options:
  --version  Show version number  [boolean]
  --help     Show help  [boolean]

Documentation

Configuration

The configuration is in order to link your API_key, email and password also the project ID of your current project.

• link your holberton email and intranet password

$ checker config email [email protected]
$ checker config password <yourpassword>

• add the API_key and the current project id

$ checker config api_key <yourapikey>
$ checker config project  253

Usage

Now with all your configuration setup you can move forward by authenticate for the intranet API

$ checker authenticate

This command will keep your auth_token in the .checker dotfile, keep it hiden and deleted every just after you test this application. we will noticed you for a secure version of checker-cli soon in the future

• list all tasks in the project

$ checker tasks

[ 1233 ] - >>> ht = {}
[ 1234 ] - djb2
[ 1235 ] - key -> index
[ 1236 ] - >>> ht['betty'] = 'holberton'
[ 1251 ] - >>> ht['betty']
[ 1252 ] - >>> print(ht)
[ 1388 ] - >>> del ht
[ 1253 ] - $ht['Betty'] = 'Holberton'

You will get a list of all the tasks in the current project with the id wich use in in the next request

• Request a correction ID

$ checker ask 1234

Correction ID: 3590920

• Now you are ready to get your correction

$ checker correction 3590920
   ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
   ┃             ┃
   ┃   Check 0   ┃
   ┃             ┃
   ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

   ┌─────────────┐
   │             │
   │   Check 1   │
   │             │
   └─────────────┘

Enjoy!