Losant CLI

Description

Losant CLI is a command line tool to help manage your Losant Application and its resources. It easily lets you manage Experience Views, Experience Versions, Files, and Data Tables in your Applications.

Installation

The CLI requires Node.js version 14 or higher. The latest stable version is available in NPM and can be installed using:

npm install -g losant-cli

Usage

losant [options] [command]

Commands

• login
• set-token
• configure
• experience
• files
• datatables

Login

Before you run any other commands, you must run losant login to authenticate with your Losant account. This command checks to see if your account is linked to a Single Sign-On (SSO) provider. If so, the command will prompt for a User Token; otherwise it will prompt for the password (and optionally your multi-factor code) for your Losant account. After either is given successfully, the command will store the authentication token on your computer. With this command, you can optionally set LOSANT_API_URL as an environment variable; e.g. LOSANT_API_URL=<api.private.install> losant login. By default the CLI will use https://api.losant.com as the API URL. This will allow you to log in across Losant installations. If you are logged in to multiple Losant installations when you configure a directory, you will be asked which API token to use to access the application. From then on, any request for that application will use the same API URL.

Set-token

The set-token command, losant set-token, is an alternative way to log in for those users whose account is linked to a Single Sign-On (SSO) provider. This will take the given token, verify that token against the API, and then set it on your user configuration file. With this command, you can optionally set the LOSANT_API_URL as an environment variable; e.g. LOSANT_API_URL=<api.private.install> losant set-token. By default the CLI will use https://api.losant.com as the API URL. This will allow you to set a token for any Losant private installation, and will allow you to set up multiple tokens (or use the login command) for different Losant installations. If you do log in to multiple Losant installations, when configuring a directory for an application, the configure command will ask which API to use to find the application. From then on, any request for that application will use the same API URL.

Configure

The losant configure command configures and links the current directory to one of your Losant Applications. Once you have configured you will notice a few new directories into your current directory. There will be the following directories added:

• experience/components
• experience/pages
• experience/layouts
• files/
• dataTables/

This is how the CLI will be able to detect new files, experience views, or data tables that you want to add, update or remove from your Losant Application. The files directory will contain and reflect the directory and files on your Losant Application's Files. Similarly, the dataTables directory will contain your Losant Application's data tables as csv files. and The experience directory is broken down by view type (components, layouts and pages), e.g. if you want to create a new component add this to your components directory, or if you want to remove a page, you will find that page located under experience/pages.

Experience

The losant experience command is how you manage the Experience Views and Versions for a configured Application. It has the following subcommands:

• download
• status
• upload
• layout
• bootstrap
• version
• watch

Experience Examples

• Download all experience views (components, layouts and pages)
  $ losant experience download
• Download component views
  $ losant experience download --type components
• Download component views with names that start with error
  $ losant experience download --type components error*
• Force a download of all views overwriting local modifications
  $ losant experience download -f
• Check status of all experience views
  $ losant experience status
• Upload all experience views
  $ losant experience upload
• Upload only component views
  $ losant experience upload --type components /*
• List all of your current experience versions
  $ losant experience version
• List all of your experience versions that match a pattern
  $ losant experience version -l v1.*
• Create a new experience version
  $ losant experience version v1.0.0
• Create a new experience version with a description
  $ losant experience version v1.0.1 -d "updated home page"
• Watch your Experience while you make changes and have them automatically uploaded
  $ losant experience watch
• View all your experience pages with their layouts
  $ losant experience layout
• View all of your experience pages that match this pattern with their layout
  $ losant experience layout -l v1.*
• View all your experience pages with their layouts
  $ losant experience layout
• To generate our standard experience starter views
  $ losant experience bootstrap

Files

The losant files command is how you manage the files for a configured Application. It has the following subcommands:

• download
• status
• upload
• watch

Files Examples

• Download all files
  $ losant files download
• Download files in images directory
  $ losant files download images/*
• Force a download of all files overwriting local modifications
  $ losant files download -f
• Check status of all files
  $ losant files status
• Upload all files
  $ losant files upload
• Upload files in images directory
  $ losant files upload images/*
• Force an upload of all files overwriting remote modifications
  $ losant files upload -f
• Watch your Files while you make changes and have them automatically uploaded
  $ losant files watch

Data Tables

The losant datatables command is how you manage the data tables for a configured Application. It has the following subcommands:

• export

Data Tables Examples

• Export all data tables
  $ losant datatables export
• Export all data tables whose names start with Chicago
$ losant datatables export Chicago
• Force a export of all data tables overwriting local modifications
  $ losant datatables export -f

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