Import System Identifiers

Import entity system identifiers.

opal import-ids <CREDENTIALS> <OPTIONS> [EXTRAS]

Options

Option Description
--type TYPE, -t TYPE Entity type of the data (e.g. Participant)

Credentials

Authentication can be done by username/password credentials OR by personal access token OR by certificate/private key pair (two-way SSL authentication).

Option Description
--opal OPAL, -o OPAL Opal server base url
--user USER, -u USER Credentials auth: user name (requires a password)
--password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD Credentials auth: user password (requires a user name)
--token TOKEN, -tk TOKEN Token auth: user’s personal access token
--ssl-cert SSL_CERT, -sc SSL_CERT Two-way SSL auth: certificate/public key file (requires a private key)
--ssl-key SSL_KEY, -sk SSL_KEY Two-way SSL auth: private key file (requires a certificate)

Extras

Option Description
-h, --help Show the command help’s message.
--verbose, -v Verbose output.
--json, -j Output pretty-print JSON

Example

Import system identifiers from keyboard entries.

opal import-ids --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --type Participant

Import system identifiers from a file.

opal import-ids --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --type Participant < ids.txt

Example of a file of identifiers:

11123456
11345467
11995884
11423423