Chapter 3. IdM API and IdM CLI commands comparison

IdM CLI and IdM API commands difference

Command naming structure

The ipa CLI commands use the hyphen, as in user-add, but IdM API commands use the underscore instead, as in user_add.

Parameter naming

The parameters are different for IdM CLI commands and IdM API commands. For example, the IdM CLI user-add command has a parameter first but the IdM API user_add command has a parameter givenname.

Date format

The following date formats are available for IdM CLI:

• %Y%m%d%H%M%SZ
• %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ
• %Y-%m-%dT%H:%MZ
• %Y-%m-%dZ
• %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SZ

• %Y-%m-%d %H:%MZ

  Additionally, the IdM API can use the Python built-in class datetime.