Pull, push, compare and validate resources

Using the serialization commands you can pull, push, compare, and validate resources. You can then create and install a package.

Before you begin

Initialize your working folder.

Note

In some of the examples in this section, the --name parameter has a value that includes a wildcard. Assigning wildcards to a parameter lets you target data based on a pattern instead of a literal value. For example, using the name value of MyNamespace* affects all resources with a name that starts with MyNamespace.

Pull

To fetch resources from the connected Content Hub ONE tenant, use the pull command. The working directory is initialized automatically when pulling resources for the first time.

You can specify what type of resource to fetch by appending parameters to the command, as shown in the following examples:

# All content types
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-type --id "*"

# Single content type with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-type --id "Blog"

# All content items of a specific content type for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "*"

# All content items of a specific type and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "en-GB"

# All content items of a specific type and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "en-GB"

# Single content item with a specific ID and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization pull content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" 

# All media items
ch-one-cli serialization pull media --id "*"

# Single media item with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization pull media --id "MyMediaItem"

# All taxonomies
ch-one-cli serialization pull taxonomy --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization pull taxonomy --id "Destination"

# All locales
ch-one-cli serialization pull locales --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization pull locales --id "en-GB"

Note

In some of the examples, the --id parameter has a value that includes a wildcard. Assigning wildcards to a parameter lets you target data based on a pattern instead of a literal value. For example, pulling content with an ID of B* pulls all items with an ID that begins with B.

Push

To push resources to the connected Content Hub ONE tenant, use the push command. You can specify what type of resource to push by appending parameters to the command, as shown in the following examples:

# All content types
ch-one-cli serialization push content-type --id "*"

# Single content type with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization push content-type --id "Blog"

# All content items of a specific content type for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "*"

# All content items of a specific type and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "en-GB"

# All content items of a specific type and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "en-GB"

# Single content item with a specific ID and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization push content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" 
# All media items
ch-one-cli serialization push media --id "*"

# Single media item with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization push media --id "MyMediaItem"

# All taxonomies
ch-one-cli serialization push taxonomy --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization push taxonomy --id "Destination"

# All locales
ch-one-cli serialization push locales --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization push locales --id "en-GB"

Compare

Use the Compare command to highlight the differences between local resources and those present in the tenant. By default, the output shows a high-level overview of whether an entity was updated ([U]), added ([A]) or deleted ([D]). To see detailed changes, you can append the --verbose flag to the command.

[U] SampleArticle
 [U] fields
  [U] id: Title
   [U] required
     false - true
  [A] id: ReleaseDate

To compare resources, run one of the following commands:

# All content types
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-type --id "*"

# Single content type with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-type --id "Blog"

# All content items of a specific content type for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "*"

# All content items of a specific type and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "en-GB"

# All content items of a specific type and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "en-GB"

# Single content item with a specific ID and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization diff content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems"

# All media items
ch-one-cli serialization diff media --id "*"

# Single media item with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization diff media --id "MyMediaItem"

# All taxonomies
ch-one-cli serialization diff taxonomy --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization diff taxonomy --id "Destination"

# All locales
ch-one-cli serialization diff locales --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization diff locales --id "en-GB"

Validate

The CLI validates the YAML files to ensure, for example, that they use unique IDs, valid culture identifiers, and respect field length restrictions.

To validate resources locally, even while working on them, run one of the following commands:

# All content types
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-type --id "*"

# Single content type with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-type --id "Blog"

# All content items of a specific content type for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "*"

# All content items of a specific type and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*" --locale "en-GB"

# All content items of a specific type and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID for all locales
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "*"

# Single content item with a specific ID and a specific locale
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" --locale "en-GB"

# Single content item with a specific ID and null locale
ch-one-cli serialization validate content-item --content-type "Blog" --id "HowToPullContentItems" 

# All media items
ch-one-cli serialization validate media --id "*"

# Single media item with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization validate media --id "MyMediaItem"

# All taxonomies
ch-one-cli serialization validate taxonomy --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization validate taxonomy --id "Destination"

# All locales
ch-one-cli serialization validate locales --id "*"

# Single taxonomy with a specific ID
ch-one-cli serialization validate locales --id "en-GB"

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