Data

Get data: list of entity identifiers or entity values from a table/variable.

opal data <RESOURCE> <CREDENTIALS> [EXTRAS]

Arguments

Argument Description
RESOURCE Resource identification in the format <datasource>.<table>[:<variable>]. Each project has a datasource which is identified by the project’s name.

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

Fetch the list of entity identifiers associated to a table:

opal data CNSIM.CNSIM1 --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password

Fetch the variable value for a entity in a table:

# Get the JSON representation of all participant values in a table
opal data CNSIM.CNSIM1 -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1444 -j

# Get the JSON representation of a variable value
opal data CNSIM.CNSIM1:GENDER -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1444 -j

# Get the raw value. If variable is of binary type, a byte stream is outputed.
opal data CNSIM.CNSIM1:GENDER -o https://opal-demo.obiba.org -u administrator -p password --id 1444 -j --raw