The Opal Command line tool

Opal ships with a helpful command line tool that helps with administrative tasks.

The opal script should be on your system path if you installed Opal via setup.py or pip. You can check whether it is available by running this command:

$ opal -v

startproject <name>

Creates a new Opal project.

This creates boilerplate and a default configuration for your new project, including creating a new underlying Django project, updating default settings to be compatible with Opal, creating directories and code boilerplate, and running initial migrations.

startplugin <name>

Creates boilerplate code, and directory structures for a new Opal plugin.

test <what>

Run our tests suites.

Defaults to running both Python and Javascript tests.

If specified, will only run one specific kind of test.

$ opal test py $ opal test js

When running Python tests, the -t or --test option allows the user to specify a single test module, case or method to run.

$ opal test py -t opal.tests.test_models

The --failfast option will end the test run on the first failing test rather than continuing with the entire run.

checkout

Ensure that all of our application plugins and packages are on the correct branch.

This is particularly useful when working on Opal itself, or when you have multiple projects that use different versions of Opal or plugins. It will assume that github based requirements will be installed in development via python setup.py develop.

This command will parse your project's requirements.txt, and then ensure that any Github sources are checked out locally to the branch specified therein.