From c355c15a12e5206a6292fbbaf0c0a909db4dbbaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerry Nelson <gerry.nelson@sas.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:43:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add listcaslibs.py as an example of developing a tool

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# listcaslibs.py December 2017
+#
+# listcaslibs an example of how easy it is to build a new tool. This tool is not really needed as you can do this easily with the CLI
+# it is here for demo purposes. It lists the caslibs and there details accepting the cas server as a parameter
+#
+#
+# Change History
+#
+# 27JAN2017 Comments added
+#
+#
+# Copyright © 2018, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.  All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either 
+#  express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+# 
+
+import argparse 
+from sharedfunctions import callrestapi,printresult
+
+# setup command-line arguements. In this block which is common to all the tools you setup what parameters
+# are passed to the tool
+# the --output parameter is a common one which supports the three styles of output json, simple or csv
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() 
+parser.add_argument("-s","--server", help="The CAS SERVER.",required='True',default="cas-shared-default")
+parser.add_argument("-o","--output", help="Output Style", choices=['csv','json','simple'],default='json')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+casserver=args.server
+output_style=args.output
+
+# set the request type
+reqtype='get'
+
+# set the endpoint to call
+reqval='/casManagement/servers/'+casserver+'/caslibs'
+
+#make the rest call using the callrestapi function. You can have one or many calls
+caslib_result_json=callrestapi(reqval,reqtype)
+
+# example of overriding the columns for csv output
+cols=['name','type','path','scope','attributes','description']
+
+# print result accepts
+# the json returned
+# the output style
+# optionally the columns for csv outtput, if you don't pass in columns you get defaults
+
+# You can just print results r post process the results as you need to
+
+printresult(caslib_result_json,output_style,cols)
+