vutil

vREST Utility which provides the following functions:

• Executes a system command via REST API
• Executes a DB query via REST API
• Converts CSV to JSON via REST API
• Fires multipart request
• Reads Text files via REST API

Prerequisites:

• Node.js - Download and Install Node.js. You can also follow this wiki (https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/)

Setup / Installation

Step by step guide to install vutil:

• Clone / download the vutil repository in the directory of your choice.

  • If you have installed git, then you may clone the repository with the following command:

    $ git clone git@github.com:vrest-io/vutil.git

  • OR you may download the repository from github.

• Now, copy the config-sample.json into config.json.

  $ cd vutil

  $ cp config-sample.json config.json

  Note: Whenever there is a change in config.json file, then you need to restart the vutil server.

• Now, install the dependencies of the vutil module

  $ npm install

• Now, vutil server is ready to start. Simply execute the following command to start the vutil server. You may change the port number with the following command.

  $ PORT=4080 node server.js

That's it. You may access vutil server on http://localhost:4080. This is also your vutilBaseURL which will be used in vREST test cases.