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From YouTube: Remote Development - Workspaces CLI Updates

Description

Added the ability to update workspaces from the glab CLI.
Added the support for --output=json/--watch flags for workspace list and view commands

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Hi everyone today I'll be reading you through an update we've introduced as a part of the remote development work. We've done some work in the past to introduce some commands in the CLI to be able to manage workspaces and, in this session, I'll be taking you through some additional enhancements that we've introduced. So first, let's take a look at the First Command that we've introduced, which is the update command so at present.

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Now, if you uh look at the health documents under the workspace command, you can see this additional update command now being available, and this basically allows you to selectively update attributes for any existing workspace.

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So in order to Showcase how this works, uh maybe if we first take a look at some of the existing workspaces we have so, let's take a quick look at what we have under this particular group yeah. So, um let's say I wish to change the editor of workspace, one to something else, maybe vs code. All I need to do now is just uh remove the sub update sub command. Again, we need the group The workspace ID, which in this case let's say it is one and we want to change the editor to vs code.

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I can just type that and yeah. Now. If we view the list again, we will see that the workspace has been updated and in this manner you can use the update command to pretty much change. Quite a few things, you can take a look at the update, app uh prompt to see what all options are available to you, so yeah uh yeah, so I think that pretty much covers the new update command that we've introduced.

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The moving on to the other changes. We've also introduced some additional flags for the list and view command, so the first flag I'd like to talk about is like the Json flag. So currently we just had a look at the list command right and you can see that it prints out uh like a pretty table.

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uh You can spend this with an output key flag and then set the value to Json, and it will now give you a Json rendered list of the workspace data. This is also there for the view command. So here you can see, for example,.

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You can render the same thing for any specific workspace in this case we're looking at the Json data for uh workspace with id1. So currently we only support Json output, but maybe we can add more things in the future.

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The next enhancement I'd like to take you through again, is related to an additional flag. We've introduced again for both the list and view commands, and this is the watch slide.

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The watch flag essentially allows you to uh subscribe to any updates in either a list of workspaces or any specific workspace. So in order to see how this works, maybe perhaps we can take a look at the list of workspaces under this particular group and in another window, I can try to maybe change an attribute right.

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So let's try to go and change the editor of workspace with id2 to let's say YouTube ID, and you can see that it will eventually reflect while you're still in work running the command so yeah and the same thing also works for The View command.

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So you can use the real command and.

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We are here watching uh or we are subscribing to the changes for workspace once so again. We can just make a change and change the type of ID as well and yeah. As you can see, that's uh reflected here now so yeah. That concludes all the search changes we've introduced in this update. um Thank you. So much for your time. Bye.