apiman-cli: A CLI for apiman

Manage your apiman instances from the command line.

Script actions, such as adding APIs and gateways, or display information about a running apiman environment.

Example

Let's assume you have an apiman server running on http://localhost:8080

Step 1: Create a new API:

$ ./apiman api create \
        --name example \
        --endpoint http://example.com \
        --initialVersion 1.0 \
        --public \
        --orgName test

Step 2: Publish it:

$ ./apiman api publish \
        --name example \
        --version 1.0 \
        --orgName test

You're done! Hit your new API at: http://localhost:8080/apiman-gateway/test/example/1.0

Management example

You can also manage your apiman server.

Add a gateway:

$ ./apiman gateway create \
        --name test-gw \
        --endpoint http://localhost:1234 \
        --username apimanager \
        --password "apiman123!" \
        --type REST

Add a plugin:

$ ./apiman plugin add \
        --groupId io.apiman.plugins \
        --artifactId apiman-plugins-test-policy \
        --version 1.2.4.Final

You can do much more - see the Usage section.

Declarative API management

Whilst running commands to control your apiman environment from the CLI can be helpful, sometimes you need to keep your configuration in a file that you can check into your source control system.

For this, apiman-cli has Declarative Mode.

Here's how it works:

Step 1: Declare your API environment

Here's a simple YAML file (you can use JSON if you want):

# simple.yml
---
org:
  name: "test"
  description: "Test organisation"
  apis:
    - name: "example"
      description: "Example API"
      version: "1.0"
      published: true
      config:
        endpoint: "http://example.com"
        endpointType: "rest"
        public: true
        gateway: "TheGateway"
      policies:
        - name: "CachingPolicy"
          config:
            ttl: 60

Step 2: Apply the environment declaration

$ ./apiman apply -f simple.yml
INFO Loaded declaration: examples/declarative/simple.yml
INFO Adding org: test
INFO Adding API: example
INFO Configuring API: example
INFO Adding policy 'CachingPolicy' to API: example
INFO Publishing API: example
INFO Applied declaration

The following things just happened:

1. an organisation named test was created,
2. an API named example was added with the endpoint http://example.com,
3. a caching policy was added to the API and configured with a TTL of 60 seconds and, finally,
4. the API was published to the gateway.

Declarations also allow you to add gateways, install plugins and more. See the examples directory.

Using placeholder properties

You can also use placeholders in your declaration files. This helps you reuse declaration files across different environments. For example:

endpoint: "${myApiEndpoint}"

...then pass them in when you run the apply command:

./apiman apply -f simple.yml -P myApiEndpoint=http://example.com

Additionally, you can specify a properties files, containing key-value pairs, such as:

./apiman apply -f simple.yml --propertiesFile /path/to/placeholder.properties

Shared policies and properties

To avoid repeating the same policy definitions, you can define them once in the shared section of your declaration file, then refer to them by name later.

For example, see the shared-policies.yml file.

The same goes for properties - you can define them in the shared section and reuse them.

See the shared-properties.yml example file.

Requirements

• An instance of apiman
• JDK 8
• OS X, Windows, Linux

Usage

apiman plugin [args...]
apiman org [args...]
apiman api [args...]
apiman gateway [args...]
apiman apply [args...]

--debug                    : Log at DEBUG level (default: false)
--help (-h)                : Display usage only (default: false)
--server (-s) VAL          : Management API server address (default:
                             http://localhost:8080/apiman)
--serverPassword (-sp) VAL : Management API server password (default:
                             admin123!)
--serverUsername (-su) VAL : Management API server username (default: apiman)

Manage Organisations

apiman org show [args...]
apiman org create [args...]

Show Org

apiman org show [args...]

--name (-n) VAL            : Name

Create Org

apiman org create [args...]

--description (-d) VAL     : Description
--name (-n) VAL            : Name

Manage Gateways

apiman gateway test [args...]
apiman gateway show [args...]
apiman gateway create [args...]
apiman gateway list [args...]

List Gateways

apiman gateway list [args...]

Create Gateway

apiman gateway create [args...]

--description (-d) VAL     : Description
--endpoint (-e) VAL        : Endpoint
--name (-n) VAL            : Name
--password (-p) VAL        : Password
--type (-t) [REST | SOAP]  : type (default: REST)
--username (-u) VAL        : Username

Show Gateway

apiman gateway show [args...]

--name (-n) VAL            : Name

Test Gateway

apiman gateway test [args...]

--description (-d) VAL     : Description
--endpoint (-e) VAL        : Endpoint
--name (-n) VAL            : Name
--password (-p) VAL        : Password
--type (-t) [REST | SOAP]  : type (default: REST)
--username (-u) VAL        : Username

Manage Plugins

apiman plugin show [args...]
apiman plugin add [args...]
apiman plugin list [args...]

Show Plugin

apiman plugin show [args...]

--debug                    : Log at DEBUG level (default: false)
--help (-h)                : Display usage only (default: false)
--id (-i) VAL              : Plugin ID

Add Plugin

apiman plugin add [args...]

--artifactId (-a) VAL      : Artifact ID
--classifier (-c) VAL      : Classifier
--groupId (-g) VAL         : Group ID
--version (-v) VAL         : Version

List Plugins

apiman plugin list [args...]

Manage APIs

apiman api create [args...]
apiman api list [args...]
apiman api publish [args...]

Create API

apiman api create [args...]

--endpoint (-e) VAL                 : Endpoint
--endpointType (-t) VAL             : Endpoint type (default: rest)
--gateway (-g) VAL                  : Gateway (default: TheGateway)
--initialVersion (-v) VAL           : Initial version
--name (-n) VAL                     : API name
--orgName (-o) VAL                  : Organisation name
--public (-p)                       : Public API
--serverVersion (-sv) [v11x | v12x] : Management API server version (default:
                                      v11x)

List APIs

apiman api list [args...]

--orgName (-o) VAL                  : Organisation name
--serverVersion (-sv) [v11x | v12x] : Management API server version (default:
                                      v11x)

Publish API

apiman api publish [args...]

--version (-v) VAL                  : API version
--name (-n) VAL                     : API name
--orgName (-o) VAL                  : Organisation name
--serverVersion (-sv) [v11x | v12x] : Management API server version (default:
                                      v11x)

Apply declaration

apiman apply [args...]

 --declarationFile (-f) PATH : Declaration file
 -P VAL                      : Set property (key=value)

Recent changes and Roadmap

For recent changes see the Changelog.

Roadmap

• Support reading management API configuration from environment variables
• Better support for non-public APIs
• Support deletion
• Support for retiring published APIs
• Option to skip or fail for existing items in declarative mode
• Docs - split examples into separate file
• Docs - split detailed API usage into separate file
• Docs - simplify README examples

Building

If you just want to run apiman-cli, use the apiman or apiman.bat (Windows) scripts in the root directory.

If you want to compile the JAR yourself, use:

./gradlew clean build

Note: for distribution, apiman-cli is built as a 'fat JAR' (aka 'shadow JAR'). To do this yourself, run:

./gradlew clean shadowJar

...and look under the build/libs directory.

Importing into your favourite IDE is easy, as long as it supports Gradle projects.

Tests

If you want to run unit tests, run:

./gradlew clean test

If you want to run integration tests, ensure you have an apiman instance running on http://localhost:8080, then run:

./gradlew clean test -PintegrationTest

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

Author

Pete Cornish ([email protected])