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AYX Plugin CLI Commands

Explore the AYX Plugin CLI commands and parameters.

sdk-workspace-init

This command initializes a workspace—a directory that contains all of the source code and configuration details for a set of Alteryx SDK plugins. Users create a workspace to house all of their plugin code, and once it's ready, generate a YXI for said code. The command creates an ayx_workspace.json file that defines package details and tools. It also generates a backend/ directory for the plugin code, config/ directory for plugin configurations, ui/ directory for the plugin’s UI components, a README, and a gitignore file.

注記

Most ayx-plugin-cli commands expect an ayx_workspace.json file in the current directory and throw an exception otherwise.

Parameters

注記

If a parameter is not passed in as part of the CLI call, the CLI will wait for standard input for the ignored parameters, even if they’re optional.

--package-name

This parameter becomes the name of the YXI that is generated from the workspace.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any alphanumeric string.

--tool-category

This parameter is the Designer tool category tab that the resulting tools are placed in when the YXI is installed. If the category does not exist, one is created when the tool is installed. If left blank, the tools are installed under the Python SDK Examples category.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

  • Default: Python SDK Examples

--description

The package description.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

--author

The plugin author.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

--company

The company creating the plugin.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

--backend-language

The programming language that a plugin will use. At present, the CLI only supports Python plugins.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: python

create-ayx-plugin

This command generates the boilerplate code, configs, and UI for a new Alteryx plugin in the workspace.

If this command fails midway through execution, it leaves half-finished files and directories in the workspace. In order to delete these, follow these steps:

  • Remove config/<Plugin> directory.

  • Remove backend/ayx_plugins/<plugin>.py.

  • Force-remove ui/<Plugin>.

  • Remove the import statement from __init__.py.

  • Remove the tool from ayx_workspace.json’s “tools” key.

Parameters

注記

If a parameter is not passed in as part of the CLI call, the CLI will wait for standard input for the ignored parameters, even if they’re optional.

--tool-name

This parameter becomes the name of the tool. Spaces are allowed but will be cleaned into underscores and Pascal case. For example, for a Python plugin named “A Test Tool”, the filename is a_test_tool.py, and the class/ui/config name is ATestTool.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any alphanumeric string that doesn’t start with a number and doesn’t shadow reserved names.

--tool-type

This parameter is used to determine the scaffold that the tool should generate for a plugin.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: input, output, multiple-inputs, multiple-outputs, single-input-single-output

  • Default: single-input-single-output

--description

The plugin description.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

--version

The plugin version.

  • Optional or Required: Optional

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any

create-yxi

This command packages a workspace into a YXI that can be installed into Designer. The resulting YXI is located under build/yxi/.

Parameters

This command takes no parameters.

install-yxi

This command takes a YXI (any CLI-built or legacy SDK YXI) and installs it into Designer.

注記

This command can be run from anywhere, not just Alteryx Workspace directories.

Parameters

注記

If a parameter is not passed in as part of the CLI call, the CLI will wait for standard input for the ignored parameters, even if they’re optional.

--yxi-path

The location of the YXI to be installed. Note that this does not work for YXIs built for the original Alteryx Python SDK.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: Any valid path to a YXI.

--install-type

This parameter is used to determine where a plugin should be installed. Note that admin installation requires admin access.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: user, admin

  • Default: user

designer-install

This command builds the YXI from the current workspace and installs it into Designer.

Parameters

注記

If a parameter is not passed in as part of the CLI call, the CLI will wait for standard input for the ignored parameters, even if they’re optional.

--install-type

This parameter is used to determine where a plugin should be installed. Note that admin installation requires admin access.

  • Optional or Required: Required

  • Type: String

  • Permissible Values: user, admin

  • Default: user

generate-config-files

This command generates and updates the workspace config XML, individual tool config XMLs, and the tool’s manifest.json file.

Parameters

This command takes no parameters.

Sample ayx_workspace.json

{
    "name": "TestTools",
    "tool_category": "Test Tools",
    "package_icon_path": "configuration\\default_package_icon.png",
    "author": "John Doe",
    "company": "Alteryx, Inc",
    "copyright": "2021",
    "description": "A sample Alteryx Workspace",
    "ayx_cli_version": "0.1b2.dev0",
    "backend_language": "python",
    "backend_language_settings": {
        "python_version": "3.8",
        "requirements_local_path": "tool_backends\\requirements-local.txt",
        "requirements_thirdparty_path": "tool_backends\\requirements-thirdparty.txt"
    },
    "tools": {
        "TestTool": {
            "backend": {
                "tool_module": "ayx_plugins",
                "tool_class_name": "TestTool"
            },
            "ui": {},
            "configuration": {
                "long_name": "Test Tool",
                "description": "",
                "version": "10.1",
                "search_tags": [],
                "icon_path": "configuration\\TestTool\\icon.png",
                "input_anchors": {
                    "Input": {
                        "label": "",
                        "allow_multiple": false,
                        "optional": false
                    }
                },
                "output_anchors": {
                    "Output": {
                        "label": "",
                        "allow_multiple": false,
                        "optional": false
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "tool_version": "1.0"
}