The dcae-cli is a Python command-line tool used to manage and to test components and their data formats in onboarding.
Please review the DCAE platform documentation which has a detailed dcae-cli walkthrough.
You will be prompted to initialize the dcae-cli the first time you run the tool. You also have the option to re-initializing using the --reinit flag.
You will be prompted to provide a remote server url. The remote server is expected to host several required artifacts that the dcae-cli requires like the json schemas to do validation. Use the following to use the bleeding edge:
Please enter the remote server url: https://git.onap.org/dcaegen2/platform/cli/plain
You will also be prompted for details on the postgres database to connect with. Follow the instructions below to run a local instance and provide the connection details in the initialization.
The dcae-cli requires access to an onboarding catalog which is a postgres database. If there is no shared instance for your team or organization, then a workaround is to run a local instance of postgres on your machine. One quick way is to run a postgres Docker container:
docker run -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<your password> -e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata -v <local directory>:/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:9.5.2
Use your favorite sql client to log into this local instance and create a database named dcae_onboarding_db.