apimatic-cli 2.5

# APIMatic CLI

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### Overview

This command line tool serves as a wrapper over APIMatic's Python SDK allowing API providers to generate deployment ready SDKs of their APIs for ten platforms using a single command. The following functions are supported:

* Generate an SDK
* Validate an API description
* Transform an API description


### Installation

The quickest way is to install this tool as a package from pip:
```
pip install --upgrade apimatic-cli
```

If you prefer not to use pip, you can install it manually as well:

```
git clone https://github.com/apimatic/apimatic-cli.git
cd apmiatic-cli
python setup.py install
```

Alternatively, you can run this tool without installation:

```
git clone https://github.com/apimatic/apimatic-cli.git
cd apmiatic-cli
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

It's highly recommended to use a [virtual enviroment](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/) if you choose to go this way.


### Usage

If you installed using pip, you can simply invoke the tool by typing:

```
apimatic-cli -h
```

Otherwise, if you chose not to install, make sure you're in the root folder of the repository and type:

```
python -m apimaticcli -h
```

To use this tool, you have to provide two positional arguments:

* command (generate, validate or transform)
* authentication type (fromapikey, fromuser or fromauthkey)

For information about further required or optional arguments, you can type -h as follows:

```
apimatic-cli generate fromapikey -h
```

### Options

Here is a list of all available options. You're going to be using a subset of these depending on the positional arguments you use.
```
-h or --help Displays the help text and exists.
--api-key The API key of the API description obtained from APIMatic.
--platform The platform for which the SDK needs to be generated. It can be one of:
cs_portable_net_lib, java_eclipse_jre_lib, java_gradle_android_lib,
objc_cocoa_touch_ios_lib, angular_javascript_lib, ruby_generic_lib,
python_generic_lib, php_generic_lib, node_javascript_lib, go_generic_lib
--download-to The path of the folder in which to download the file.
--name The name of the generated SDK.
--email The email address of the user's APIMatic account.
--password The password of the user's APIMatic account.
--auth-key The authentication key of the user's APIMatic account.
--url The URL of the API description.
--file The path of the API description file.
--format The format to convert the API description to. It can be one of:
APIBluePrint, Swagger10, Swagger20, SwaggerYaml, WADL2009, RAML, APIMATIC
--download-as The name (and extension) of the downloaded file.
--skip-unzip Unzipping of downloaded SDKs is skipped if this option is used.
```

### Examples

Generate a C# SDK using an API integretation key:

```
apimatic-cli generate fromapikey --api-key <your key> --platform cs_portable_net_lib --download-to ./SDKs
```

Generate a Python SDK using user credentials and an API description file and skip unzipping:

```
apimatic-cli generate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --name TestSDK --file ./data/calculator.json --platform python_generic_lib --download-to ./SDKs --skip-unzip
```

Generate a Ruby SDK using a user authentication key and an API description URL and rename the downloaded SDK:

```
apimatic-cli generate fromauthkey --auth-key <your APIMatic account authentication key> --name TestSDK --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json --platform ruby_generic_lib --download-to ./SDKs --download-as CustomName
```

Validate an API description using an API integration key:

```
apimatic-cli validate fromapikey --api-key <your key>
```

Validate an API description using a user authentication key and an API description file:

```
apimatic-cli validate fromauthkey --auth-key <your APIMatic account authentication key> --file ./data/calculator.json
```

Validate an API description using user credentials and an API description URL:

```
apimatic-cli validate fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json
```

Transform an API description to API Blueprint 1A format using an API integretation key:
```
apimatic-cli transform fromapikey --api-key <your key> --format APIBluePrint
```

Transform an API description to APIMatic format using user credentials and an API description file:
```
apimatic-cli transform fromuser --email <your APIMatic account email> --password <your APIMatic account password> --file ./data/calculator.raml --format APIMATIC
```

Transform an API description to Swagger v2.0 (YAML) format using a user authentication key and an API description URL:
```
apimatic-cli transform fromauthkey --auth-key <your APIMatic account authentication key> --url http://www.somewebsite.com/apidescription.json --format SwaggerYaml
```