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Getting Started

For initial installation, please refer to the README.

Basic Usage

  1. The utility is invoked using the gdi.sh shell script. In each run, you need to provide your GoodData username and password:

     $ ./bin/gdi.sh -u <username> -p <password>

  2. You can either run a command through the -e parameter or specify path to a text file with commands:

     $ ./bin/gdi.sh -u <username> -p <password> -e 'CreateProject(name="my project");'
 $ ./bin/gdi.sh -u <username> -p <password> /path/to/commands.txt

  3. A list of commands and descriptions is displayed when you run gdi.sh without parameter.

Workflow

The utility can help you automate creating projects, created data models and loading data. Follow one of the examples in section below to see the workflow. A typical scenario has following steps:

  1. tell the utility to read the CSV file and generate an example XML configuration file
  2. configure the XML configuration file (see XML documentation)
  3. let the utility to create a project, setup a data model according to the XML file and load data into this project
  4. alternatively, repeat the last part (data loading) as desirable

Examples

There are several examples available in your examples folder of GoodData CL. Each example contains it’s own README file describing usage.