LXD Rest API run command and get output

FireLXC · October 5, 2020, 8:11am

Hey,

Running commands via the API works fine.
But how can I get a result/output of the command I ran?

I played around with it, but never could get any output.

Thanks.

tomp · October 5, 2020, 8:19am

I’m not sure what you mean, can you provide some examples of what you are doing?

FireLXC · October 5, 2020, 8:24am

To put it simply, I want to run ls -l on a container and want to get that specific output.

However, I was not able to get a working example, where I can get the result as output.
Any idea or any example how this can be done?

turtle0x1 · October 5, 2020, 9:05am

You can either use the - exec api (enable recording the output & then get the output from the log)

Or you can use the files api

FireLXC · October 5, 2020, 9:48am

Turns out, the reason why this is not working, was that THAT ONE FUCKING THING was RAW and not JSON. But why? EVERYTHING is JSON, unexpected

Rawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Case closed.