CLI Commands

In Zootools we have have a CLI interface which allows you run arbitrary commands for example loading an application with ZootoolsPro, managing Zoo packages.

Before we begin playing around make sure you have a copy of zootools in a development location eg. documents/zootoolspro.

Commands documentation

• Commands
  • Command Library Action
    • Action
      • Action.id
      • Action.processArguments()
      • Action.arguments()
      • Action.run()
      • Action.cleanup()
  • Command Loader
    • Parser
      • Parser.error()
    • fromCli()
    • createRootParser()
  • Command Library
    • BundlePackages
      • BundlePackages.id
      • BundlePackages.arguments()
      • BundlePackages.run()
    • CachePackages
      • CachePackages.id
      • CachePackages.run()
    • CreatePackage
      • CreatePackage.id
      • CreatePackage.arguments()
      • CreatePackage.run()
    • EmbedEnv
      • EmbedEnv.id
      • EmbedEnv.arguments()
      • EmbedEnv.run()
    • InstallPackage
      • InstallPackage.id
      • InstallPackage.arguments()
      • InstallPackage.run()
    • ReleasePackage
      • ReleasePackage.id
      • ReleasePackage.arguments()
      • ReleasePackage.run()
    • Setup
      • Setup.id
      • Setup.arguments()
      • Setup.run()
    • UninstallPackage
      • UninstallPackage.id
      • UninstallPackage.arguments()
      • UninstallPackage.run()
    • GenerateDocs
      • GenerateDocs.id
      • GenerateDocs.arguments()
      • GenerateDocs.run()
      • GenerateDocs.generateApiDocs()
      • GenerateDocs.generateDocs()

CLI

You should cd into the root folder of zootools. This is required due to the cli using the working directly as a way to determine the location of internal files.

All operations are done using the ‘install/core/bin/zoo_cmd’

Lets first setup zootools and add it to maya.

cd zootoolspro
call ./bin/zoo_cmd.bat setup --destination destination/folder --zip myZootools.zip --app maya --app_dir
~/Documents/maya/modules

In the case you want to install a new package you can use the ‘–install’ flag. Like the following.

cd zootoolspro
call ./bin/zoo_cmd.bat installPackage --path myPackagePath

You can also do –inPlace 1 if you want ot use the package directly without

call ./bin/zoo_cmd.bat installPackage --path myPackagePath --inPlace

Git tags are also supported defined like so

cd zootoolspro
call install/core/bin/zoo_cmd.bat installPackage --path https:\\myGitpath.git --tag v1.0.0

Python

It’s also Possible to run any CLI command via the python api

from zoo.core import api
zoo = api.zooFromPath(os.environ["ZOOTOOLS_PRO_ROOT"])
zoo.runCommand("installPackage" ("--path somePath/folder", "--inPlace"))