tiwarishubham635/plugin-alias

A plugin for custom aliasing with suggestions

@twilio-labs/plugin-alias

Access, store and use your favorite aliases for CLI commands with this plugin. It supports all the CLIs which are built over OCLIF. Supports OCLIF v1 and v2 both.

• Getting Started
• Usage
• Commands
• Cleanup
• Troubleshooting

Getting Started

Install the Twilio Command Line Interface (Or use with any OCLIF CLI)

Via npm or yarn:

$ npm install -g twilio-cli
$ yarn global add twilio-cli

Via homebrew:

$ brew tap twilio/brew && brew install twilio

See the Twilio CLI documentation for more information.

Install the plugin for general use

The following step will install the plugin from NPM and is recommended if you are interested in trying out the commands in the latest release.

For Twilio CLI:

$ twilio plugins:install @twilio-labs/plugin-alias

For Other OCLIF CLI, say oclif-example:

$ oclif-example plugins:install @twilio-labs/plugin-alias

Install the plugin for local development

The following step will install the plugin from a local directory. Use this option if you are interested in modifying the plugin and testing it out from the Twilio CLI.

For Twilio CLI:

$ twilio plugins:link /path/to/plugin-alias

For Other OCLIF CLI, say oclif-example:

$ oclif-example plugins:link /path/to/plugin-alias

Prerequisites: Cloned repository locally

Setup the local alias directory

The following step will create a directory named "alias" in the local data directory of the user. Use this command before running any other alias command to setup the necessary directory structure.

For Twilio CLI:

$ twilio alias:setup

For Other OCLIF CLI, say oclif-example:

$ oclif-example alias:setup

Usage

Here we have shown the usage with Twilio CLI. If you are using some other CLI, change "twilio" with your CLI Name, say "oclif-example".

$ twilio --help alias
USAGE
  $ twilio alias
...

Commands

• twilio alias:setup
• twilio alias:add
• twilio alias:delete
• twilio alias:use
• twilio alias:list
• twilio alias:import
• twilio alias:export
• twilio alias:reset

twilio alias:setup

Setup local directory for storing aliases

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:setup

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:setup
  Setup complete

See code: src/commands/alias/setup.js

twilio alias:add

Create a new alias to access Twilio CLI commands

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:add [name] [command]

ARGUMENTS
  name  				   Name of the alias shorthand
  command            			   Command to shorthand

OPTIONS
  -f, --force           		   Overwrite already present alias

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:add plist profiles:list
  Successfully created alias plist for profiles:list

Note: Even if the CLI being used has a space topic separator, the commands must be added with colon as the topic separator only. See code: src/commands/alias/add.js

twilio alias:delete

Delete an alias

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:delete [name]

ARGUMENTS
  name  				   Name of the alias shorthand

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:delete plist
  Successfully deleted alias plist

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:delete [non-existing_alias_name]

ARGUMENTS
  name  				   Name of the alias shorthand

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:delete pli
  Did you mean? 
  >plist
  proList
  Continue without deleting 

See code: src/commands/alias/delete.js

twilio alias:use

Use an alias for a Twilio CLI command

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:use [name]

ALIAS
  $ twilio use [name]

ARGUMENTS
  name  				   Name of the alias shorthand

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:use plist
  Using the command profiles:list from alias plist
  <Output of profiles:list>

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:use [non-existing_alias_name]

ARGUMENTS
  name  				   Name of the alias shorthand

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:use pli
  Did you mean? 
  >plist
  proList
  Continue without using 

The command alias:use is inherently statically aliased for further simplicity

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio use plist                        //Works for only CLIs without any topic separators set
  <Output>
  
  $ twilio :use plist                       //Works for all CLIs without any dependency on the topic separators
  <Output>

Note: For CLIs built over oclif, the topics can be separated by either ':' or ' '. See More. Support present in oclif v2, will be fixed in future releases

See code: src/commands/alias/use.js

twilio alias:list

View the aliases

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:list

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:list
  List of the stored aliases

  <Lists all the aliases stored>

See code: src/commands/alias/list.js

twilio alias:import

Import aliases from a file

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:import [filepath]

ARGUMENTS
  filepath  				   Path of the alias file

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:import ./aliasfile.json
  Successfully imported aliases from file ./aliasfile.json

See code: src/commands/alias/import.js

twilio alias:export

Export the aliases

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:export [filepath](optional)
  
ARGUMENTS
  filepath  				   Path of the alias file

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:export ./abc.json
  Successfully exported aliases to file ./abc.json

The command exports to a default path if path is not specified.

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:export
  Exporting to default path ...
  Successfully exported aliases to file ./dataexport.json

See code: src/commands/alias/export.js

twilio alias:reset

Reset the aliases and directory. Used for cleanup. Recommended to run before uninstalling the plugin. Not visible in --help

USAGE
  $ twilio alias:reset

EXAMPLE
  $ twilio alias:reset
  reset complete

See code: src/commands/alias/reset.js

Cleanup

If you want to update or uninstall the plugin, then we recommend that before proceeding towards uninstalling please do the cleanup of local directory by the following command:

$ twilio alias:reset

To update the plugin, you can uninstall the older version and install the new version from npm.

To uninstall the plugin use the command:

For Twilio CLI:

$ twilio plugins:uninstall @twilio-labs/plugin-alias

If you have linked the plugin locally for development, you can unlink it with the command:

For Twilio CLI:

$ twilio plugins:unlink /path/to/plugin-alias

Troubleshooting

If you run into some issue while using the plugin, refer the help section by using the command with the flag --help

  $ twilio [COMMAND] --help

If facing bugs or issues, checkout the Issues to check if this issue already exists. If it does not exists, then create a new one.