Implementing profiles in a plug-in

You can use this profile template to create a profile for your product.

The profile definition is placed in the imperative.ts file.

The type: "someproduct" property represents the profile name that you might require on various commands to have credentials loaded from a secure credential manager and retain the host/port information, so that you can easily swap to different servers from the CLI.

By default, if your plug-in that is installed into Zowe™ CLI contains a profile definition that is similar to the following example, a profile template is added automatically to team config JSON when you run the zowe config init command. Any properties for which includeInTemplate is true are included in the template. Additionally, commands that manage V1 profiles are created automatically under zowe profiles. For example, create, validate, set-default, list, and so on.

profiles: [
    {
      type: "someproduct",
      schema: {
        type: "object",
        title: "Configuration profile for SOME PRODUCT",
        description: "Configuration profile for SOME PRODUCT ",
        properties: {
          host: {
            type: "string",
            optionDefinition: {
              type: "string",
              name: "host",
              alias:["H"],
              description: "Host name of your SOME PRODUCT REST API server"
            }
          },
          port: {
            type: "number",
            optionDefinition: {
              type: "number",
              name: "port",
               alias:["P"],         
              includeInTemplate: true,
              description: "Port number of your SOME PRODUCT REST API server"
            }
          },
          user: {
            type: "string",
            optionDefinition: {
              type: "string",
              name: "user",
              alias:["u"],          
              description: "User name to authenticate to your SOME PRODUCT REST API server"
            },
            secure: true
          },
          password: {
            type: "string",
            optionDefinition: {
              type: "string",
              name: "password",
              alias:["p"],          
              description: "Password to authenticate to your SOME PRODUCT REST API server"
            },
            secure: true
          },
        },
      },
      createProfileExamples: [
        {
         options: "spprofile --host zos123 --port 1234 --user ibmuser --password myp4ss",
         description: "Create a SOME PRODUCT profile named 'spprofile' to connect to SOME PRODUCT at host zos123 and port 1234"
        }
      ]
    }
]

Next steps

If you completed all previous tutorials, you now understand the basics of extending and developing plug-ins for Zowe CLI. Next, we recommend reviewing the project contribution guidelines and Imperative CLI Framework documentation to learn more.