Add a test connection/authentication function

[veglar]

I've just downloaded ctrl-q and trying to get it up and running, but run into trouble.

I've tried to list tasks, but get error messages similar to whats reported in #291 , but I also get similar when trying to fetch bookmarks or script from an app.

To rule out that there are issues with my certificate/authentication it could be a good idea to add a simple function just to test the connection. Am I connecting successfully with the Qlik Sense server or not? Having a function like this available can help users to identify or rule out authentication issues when troubleshooting.

[mountaindude]

Good idea.

And yes - latest Ctrl-Q version is not stable wrt task-related features (export tasks, view tasks etc).
From what I have seen the issues are related to external program tasks and user sync tasks. If you have such tasks things will break...

If there are only reload tasks things work fine, from what I've seen.
There may still be corner cases where bugs are lurking of course...

Anyways, major refactoring is ongoing to add support for all task types and generally making things more robust.

And: A test connection command is a great idea!
Noted.

[mountaindude]

Something like this:

goran@butler-dev-1:~/code/ctrl-q$ ./ctrl-q connection-test --host 192.168.100.109 --auth-user-dir LAB --auth-user-id goran --log-level info
2023-10-26T05:59:38.458Z info: -----------------------------------------------------------
2023-10-26T05:59:38.461Z info: | Ctrl-Q
2023-10-26T05:59:38.461Z info: | 
2023-10-26T05:59:38.461Z info: | Version      : 3.13.2
2023-10-26T05:59:38.461Z info: | Log level    : info
2023-10-26T05:59:38.461Z info: | 
2023-10-26T05:59:38.462Z info: | Command      : connection-test
2023-10-26T05:59:38.462Z info: |                         : test connection to Qlik Sense server
2023-10-26T05:59:38.462Z info: | 
2023-10-26T05:59:38.463Z info: | Run Ctrl-Q with the '--help' option to see a list of all available options for this command.
2023-10-26T05:59:38.463Z info: | 
2023-10-26T05:59:38.463Z info: | https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/ctrl-q
2023-10-26T05:59:38.463Z info: ----------------------------------------------------------
2023-10-26T05:59:38.464Z info: 
2023-10-26T05:59:38.468Z info: Testing connection to Qlik Sense server 192.168.100.109 on port 4242
2023-10-26T05:59:38.542Z info: Successfully connected to Qlik Sense server 192.168.100.109 on port 4242
2023-10-26T05:59:38.542Z info: Qlik Sense build version: 31.34.0.0
2023-10-26T05:59:38.542Z info: Qlik Sense build date: 6/13/2023 10:08:17 AM
goran@butler-dev-1:~/code/ctrl-q$ 

[veglar]

Yes that looks enough.. If this indicates that both connection to server is ok and the authentication using the cert is ok.

[mountaindude]

The new connection-test command will be part of next release.

[mountaindude]

Version 3.14 was just released (download here), it contains (among other things) changes related to this ticket.