5.8 API Command Line Integration

5.8.1 Command Line Integration Overview

5.8.2 Command Line Integration Details

MySQL Shell exposes much of its functionality through an API command-line integration using a syntax that provides access to objects and their functions without opening the interactive interface. This enables you easily integrate mysqlsh with other tools. For example if you want to automate how you create an InnoDB Cluster using a bash script, you could use the command-line integration to call AdminAPI operations. This functionality is similar to using the --execute option, but the command-line integration uses a simplified argument syntax which reduces the quoting and escaping that can be required by terminals. Unlike batch mode, the command-line integration is stateless. This means that operations which return an object to be used by further operations are not possible. The command-line integration calls operations, or global object's functions, and returns.