I've got a plan. Since I'm taking the Mobile Development module next semester, I'd like to create an Android app for Pepperminty Wiki that will let me edit one or more instances of Pepperminty Wiki while I'm, say, on a bus.

To this end, I'll need to make sure that Pepperminty Wiki itself is all ready to go - which primarily entail making sure that its REST API is suitably machine-friendly, so that I can pull down all the information I need in the app I build.

Testing this, however, is a bit of a challenge - since I haven't actually started the module yet. My solution, as you might have guessed by the title of this blog post, is to build a command-line interface (CLI) instead. I've been writing a few bash scripts recently, to I tried my hand at creating something that's slightly more polished. Here's a list of the features supported at the time of posting:

• Listing all pages
• Viewing a specific page
• Listing all revisions of a page
• Viewing a specific revision of a page

Support for searching is on the cards, but it's currently waiting on support for grabbing search results as json / plain text from Pepperminty Wiki itself.

I'll be updating it with other things too as I think of them, but if you'd like to give it a try now, then here's the source:

It should update dynamically as I update the script. Simply save it to a file called peppermint - and then you can run ./peppermint to get an overview of the commands it supports. To get detailed help on a specific command, simply run ./peppermint {command_name} to get additional help about that specific command - and additional help for that command will be displayed if it supports any further arguments (it will be executed directly if not).

Sound interesting? Any particular aspect of this script you'd like explaining in more detail? Want to help out? Leave a comment below!