Dynamic config gathering

[hizir-bc]

Hello,

We need a feature as described below. Can you please check whether it can be possible?

There is a profile section as following below in the zowe.config.json file.

  "foo": {
          "type": "foo",
          "properties": {
              "host": "",
              "protocol": "https",
              "type": "basic",
              "port": 0,
              "basePath": "",
              "strictSSL": false,
              "hlq": "",
              "rejectUnauthorized": false
          },
          "secure": [
              "user",
              "password"
          ]
      }

The requirement is setting this values by commands instead of editing the file directly. It is possible to get this by executing zowe command for each property. Just like zowe config set profiles.lpar1.profiles.foo.properties.host. But this means 8 different command execution.

Can we get a dynamic way similar to zowe config secure command? For example when zowe config set profiles.lpar1.profiles.foo.properties is executed, cli can ask for the values sequentially which are defined in the config file.

Thanks

[t1m0thyj]

I think this is a really cool idea 🙂 Some more details about the use case that we discussed internally:

• Supporting the command for higher levels like config set profiles.lpar1.profiles.foo is out of scope.
• If the properties object is empty, we should prompt for all properties supported by the profile type.
• If the properties object is populated, we should prompt only for the properties that it includes.