add configuration command

[cedrata]

add configuration command

[kadinsayani]

Hi, I'm interested in working on this issue. To clarify, by add a profile do you mean add a user? I don't see a profile endpoint in the api spec.

[cedrata]

Hi @kadinsayani, thank you for the interest, I wasn't expecting to have someone interested in it!

So, what I mean is to have a configuration file structured like the following one:

[profile1]
token=foo
host=bar.com

[profile2]
token=baz
host=roo.com

It is not a feature of the Jira REST API itself but it would be something client side to handle a situation where you, developer, are jumping around multiple projects and to avoid changing all the time the configuration file or providing every time the different credentials you can use a flag --profile and select the host and token from one of the different profiles saved inside the configuration file.

The behaviour would be similar to the AWS CLI configuration file, you can take a look on how it works here

As written in the issue a user should be able to add, update and delete a profile, a default profile can be available and if no profile is specified then the default one should be used.

The command could be structured as:

$ jira-helper configure # create a new profile, edit a specific profile or the default one
$ jira-helper delete # delete the given profile 

So a new subcommand inside of cmd/root.go could be added and a new directory named cmd/configure can also be added with two file configure.go and delete.go to manage the two sub commands.

You can take inspiration from the already available commands and subcommands.

I hope this clarify the expected behaviour of the feature.
Have fun!🦄

[kadinsayani]

Thanks for the clarification! Can you please assign the issue to me?

[cedrata]

Hi @kadinsayani I can see your pull request, I will review it as soon as possible unfortunately this week turns out busier than expected. I hope you can understand!

[kadinsayani]

No worries :)