Import Opal

Import from a remote opal server.

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

Options

Option	Description
--destination DESTINATION, -d DESTINATION	Destination datasource name
--tables TABLES [TABLES ...], -t TABLES [TABLES ...]	The list of tables to be imported (defaults to all)
--incremental -i	Incremental import
--identifiers IDENTIFIERS, -id IDENTIFIERS	Name of the ID mapping
--policy POLICY, -po POLICY	ID mapping policy: required : each identifiers must be mapped prior importation (default), ignore : ignore unknown identifiers, generate : generate a system identifier for each unknown identifier.
--ropal ROPAL, -ro ROPAL	Remote Opal server base url
--ruser RUSER, -ru RUSER	Remote user name (exclusive from using token)
--rpassword RPASSWORD, -rp RPASSWORD	Remote user password (exclusive from using token)
--rtoken RTOKEN, -rt RTOKEN	Remote personal access token (exclusive from user credentials)
--rdatasource RDATASOURCE, -rd RDATASOURCE	Remote datasource name
--merge, -mg	Merge imported data dictionary with the destination one (default is false, i.e. data dictionary is overridden).

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

Copy tables BloodPressure and ArmSpan from Opal on demo.obiba.org to Opal on localhost:

opal import-opal -o http://localhost:8080 -u administrator -p password  --ro https://opal-demo.obiba.org --ru administrator --rp password --rdatasource onyx --destination opal-data --tables BloodPressure ArmSpan