cdbcli - CouchDB Interactive Shell

Features

• auto-completion for database name, document id, view name, command
• syntax highlighting of documents and views
• navigate a couchdb server as if it were a file system

• various commands supported

  • cd - change database
  • ls - list docs under a database
  • cat - show content of a doc
  • exec - execute a view
  • rm - remove a doc
  • man - show help on commands
  • mkdir - create new database
  • du - doc and database size
  • lv - list views inside a view doc

• create/update docs using external $EDITOR
• pipe output to external shell commands, such as grep, wc and jq

Demo

Usage

This tool allows you to traverse a CouchDB database as if it were a file system. Familiar file system commands are supported, such as ls, cd, mkdir, rm, etc, while providing context-rich auto-completion.

Starting cdbcli

Refer to the Installation section for guide on how to install cdbcli.

Running cdbcli requires connection parameters to the underlying couchdb instance you want to connnect to.

cdbcli --help

Usage: cdbcli [OPTIONS] [DATABASE]

Options:
  -h, --host TEXT               The host of the couchdb instance
  --port TEXT                   The port of the coouchdb instance
  -u, --username TEXT           The username to connect as
  -p, --password TEXT           The password
  -P, --askpass / --no-askpass  Ask for password?
  --tls / --no-tls              Use TLS to connect to the couchdb instance?
  --help                        Show this message and exit.

e.g., if you want to connect your couchdb instance at http://yourdomain:9999, you can issue the command:

cdbcli -h yourdomain --port 9999 -u admin -P

Specifying -P will prompt you for password. You can also use -p to specify password at the command line, but this is not recommended for sensitive passwords.

By default, cdbcli connects to the couchdb instance at http://localhost:5984.

You will be greeted by the cdbcli's splash screen:

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     / __)(  _ \(  _ \ / __)(  )  (_  _)
    ( (__  )(_) )) _ <( (__  )(__  _)(_
     \___)(____/(____/ \___)(____)(____)

    Welcome to cdbcli 0.1.1
    CouchDB version: 1.5.0

    Type 'help' or 'man' to get a list of all supported commands
    Press <TAB> for command auto-completion
    Press Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D or type 'exit' to exit

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Run with Docker

cdbcli is also available as a docker image on the docker hub

To run:

docker run -it kevinjqiu/cdbcli cdbcli <arguments>

The docker networking restrictions apply, so if you want to connect to a database on localhost, e.g., you will need to let the container use the host's networking:

docker run -it --net=host kevinjqiu/cdbcli cdbcli <arguments>

Installation

pip install cdbcli

Contributing

• Clone this repository.
• Make a Python virtualenv
• Install requirements: pip install -r requirements-test.txt
• Install docker because the integration tests require it
• Run make start_couchdb. This will start the testing couchdb instance using docker
• Run make test
• Run make stop_couchdb to clean up

Contributing to Documentation

• Clone this repository.
• Make a Python virtualenv
• Install requirements: pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
• Run make docs. The documentation can be accessed under docs/build/index.html.

Licence

cdbcli is licensed under Apache 2.0

Authors

cdbcli was written by Kevin J. Qiu.

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Attribution

• python-prompt-toolkit by Jonathan Slenders
• click by Armin Ronacher