Task

Manage a task, for shell scripts submitting tasks (import/export) and waiting for their completion.

opal task <CREDENTIALS> [OPTIONS] [EXTRAS]

Options

Option Description
--id ID The task ID. If not provided, it will be read from the standard input (from the JSON representation of the task or a plain value).
--show, -sh Show JSON representation of the task
--status, -st Get the status of the task
--wait, -w Wait for the task to complete (successfully or not)
--cancel, -c Cancel the task
--delete, -d Delete the task

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

Get the full status of a task:

opal task -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1 --json

Get the status token of a task:

opal task -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1 --status

Wait for the task to complete and get its status token:

opal task -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1 --wait