MetadataCliCommandInfo

The Command.Info structure contains information about a command. It includes the identity of the command, a description, information about the service and operation that implement the command, and CLI-specific information for the command.


Properties

string
description Required

The text description displayed to the user in help output.


identity Required

Basic command identity.


string
operation_id Required

The operation identifier corresponding to this CLI command. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vapi.operation. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vapi.operation.


options Required

The input for this command.


output_field_list Required

List of output structure name and output field info.


string
service_id Required

The service identifier that contains the operations for this CLI command. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vapi.service. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vapi.service.


formatter Optional

The Command.FormatterType enumerated type defines supported CLI output formatter types. See Command.Info.formatter.
SIMPLE : Displays command output as it is.
TABLE : Displays command output in table format.
JSON : Displays command output in JSON format.
XML : Displays command output in XML format.
CSV : Displays command output in CSV format.
HTML : Displays command output in HTML format.

Possible values are: SIMPLETABLEJSONXMLCSVHTML

JSON Example

{
	"description": "string",
	"identity": {
		"name": "string",
		"path": "string"
	},
	"operation_id": "string",
	"options": [
		{
			"description": "string",
			"field_name": "string",
			"generic": "NONE",
			"long_option": "string",
			"type": "string"
		}
	],
	"output_field_list": [
		{
			"output_fields": [
				{
					"display_name": "string",
					"field_name": "string"
				}
			],
			"structure_id": "string"
		}
	],
	"service_id": "string"
}
Returned By

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