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The Glean CLI tool

The Glean CLI tool (glean) can create and write data into databases, perform a variety of admin tasks on databases, and also do one-off queries.

The glean tool accepts all the common options to specify how to connect to access the databases.

The available commands are as follows:

glean create

Create a new database.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database
  • --finish
    Also mark the DB as complete
  • --stacked REPO
    Create a stacked database on top of REPO.
  • --property NAME=VALUE
    Set properties when creating a DB
  • --update-schema-for-stacked
    When creating a stacked DB, the schema is taken from the base DB. This option specifies that the current schema should be used instead. When using this option, creation will fail if the current schema has a different definition for any predicate in the base DB schema; therefore predicates may only be added or removed relative to the base DB.
  • FILE..
    File(s) of facts to write into the database (JSON). See Writing data to Glean.

glean write

Write facts to a database.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database
  • FILE..
    File(s) of facts to write into the database (JSON). See Writing data to Glean.
  • --finish
    Also mark the DB as complete

glean finish

Notify server that a database is complete.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database

glean dump

Dump the contents of the specified database into a file.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database
  • FILE
    File to write the facts into

glean delete

Delete a database.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database

glean derive

Derive and store a predicate. See Derived Predicates.

  • --page-bytes BYTES
    Maximum number of bytes per page

  • --page-facts FACTS
    Maximum number of facts per page

  • PREDICATE
    Predicates to derive

glean index

Index some source code using one of the known indexers.

The form of the command in general is

glean index LANGUAGE DIR --repo NAME/HASH

There may also be additional options accepted for each LANGUAGE; try glean index LANGUAGE --help to find out.

For information on each indexer, see Indexers.

glean query

Execute an Angle query and print the results, or write them to a file.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME
    Specifies the database to query

  • --page-bytes BYTES
    Maximum number of bytes per page

  • --page-facts FACTS
    Maximum number of facts per page

  • --recursive
    Fetch nested facts (slower)

  • --limit FACTS
    Maximum number of facts to query

  • -o,--output FILE
    Output the facts to a file

  • --stats FILE
    Output stats to a file ('-' for stdout)

  • --timeout MILLISECONDS Override the default query timeout

  • QUERY query to execute (@file to read from file, - for stdin)

  • --omit-results Don't print results; use with --stat to get a count of results

glean restore

Restore a database from backup.

  • LOCATOR
    DB location, see :list-all in glean shell.

Alternatively the DB to restore can be specified by:

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME and (--repo-hash HASH or --date YYY-MM-DD)

glean validate

Perform checks on the internal integrity of a database. This is for testing and debugging Glean itself.

a local database

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database

  • --no-typecheck
    Don't typecheck facts.

  • --no-keys
    Don't verify key uniqueness

  • --limit N
    Only validate the first N facts

glean validate-schema

Validate a schema. Checks that a new schem does not modify any of the predicates in the existing schema, which could lead to problems.

  • FILE
    Name of schema file

glean stats

Get fact counts and sizes. Like the :statistics command in the shell.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database

glean unfinish

Unfinish a local database (turn it from complete to incomplete state). This is for testing and development and not for routine use: once a database is marked complete it could be replicated, so we shouldn't be modifying it.

  • --repo NAME/HASH or --repo-name NAME --repo-hash HASH
    Specifies the name and hash of the database
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