add-endpoint

Adds a connection endpoint for Fauna.

fauna add-endpoint ENDPOINT [--alias=endpoint alias] [--key=secret]

Description

The add-endpoint command adds a connection endpoint for Fauna to the fauna-shell configuration file. If you don’t specify a key or alias, fauna-shell prompts you for them and then writes them to the fauna-shell configuration file.

Arguments

Argument Description

ENDPOINT

The URL of the endpoint that you want to add.

fauna-shell automatically identifies the URL’s scheme, domain, and port, and includes those values in the new endpoint entry that it creates within the configuration file.

Options

Option Description

--alias=<endpoint alias>

Optional - The endpoint alias, a name that identifies a particular endpoint.

--key=<secret>

Optional - The secret associated with a specific database at the endpoint, that provides the authentication to run queries in Fauna.

Examples

The following example demonstrates adding a new endpoint. Since the --alias and --key options were not specified, fauna-shell prompts you for them:

fauna add-endpoint https://db.fauna.com:8443
Endpoint Key: ******
Endpoint Alias [db.fauna.com]: db2
Endpoint 'db2' saved.

When the fauna-shell configuration file does not exist, running fauna add-endpoint automatically creates the configuration file.

To see the configuration file, perform one of these steps:

  1. On Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like operating systems, run the following command in a terminal:

    cat $HOME/.fauna-shell

  2. On Windows, run the following command in a command terminal:

    type %userprofile%\.fauna-shell

The configuration file should resemble:

default=db2

[db2]
domain=private.example
port=8443
scheme=https
secret=MY_ORGANIZATION_SECRET

When you run the add-endpoint command again, the new endpoint is added to the configuration file:

fauna add-endpoint http://localhost:8443/ --alias=localhost --key=secret
Endpoint 'localhost' saved.
default=db2

[db2]
domain=private.example
port=8443
scheme=https
secret=MY_ORGANIZATION_SECRET

[localhost]
domain=127.0.0.1
port=8443
scheme=http
secret=secret

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