NITRATE(1)

💅 NITRATE(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the nitrate page — it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and it's about to be your new fave little toy. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

nitrate — the command line interpreter for the Nitrate Python API 🐍

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nitrate

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic, honestly. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

python-nitrate hands you a high-level Python interface to the Nitrate test case management system. and like… the package ALSO ships a standalone script called nitrate that lets you mess around with that interface straight from the Python interpreter — it imports all the available objects for you and turns on readline support so your little typing fingers get nice line editing. ✨

so basically: set up your config first (more on that below, don't skip it 💀), and then you can manipulate all the Nitrate objects from the command line. for example:

$ nitrate
>>> for case in TestRun(123):
...     print case

obsessed. look at her go. 🫶

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💖 CONFIGURATION 💖

okay so before you can contact the Nitrate server, you gotta provide a minimal user config file. it goes in your home directory and it's called ~/.nitrate. no config, no vibes, no server. 😭

[nitrate]
url = https://nitrate.server/xmlrpc/

that's the bare minimum, bestie. put it there and you're slaying. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• python-nitrate
• nitrate-notes

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Petr Šplíchal < <psplicha@redhat.com> > — an absolute legend, fr fr. 🌟

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and that's a wrap, babes! this page came out back in February 2012, and it's page NITRATE(1) from the User Commands manual. go forth and configure your ~/.nitrate, you've got this. 💖✨🎀