Now listallthethings turns to DepotObjects.  If I want to list all the Depot Objects in a group, there's an existing command for that:

blcli_execute DepotObject listAllByGroup "/Workspace/MyDepotObjects"

And that lists all the Depot Objects in the (static) group.  Similar to the List All The Jobs post, we have the same issue with Depot Objects - we need to know the type in order to determine the DBKey, DepotObjectId, etc.

So again we go look at the DepotObject.listAllByGroup in the Unreleased blcli commands and documentation and find:

Command	Input	Return value stored name
DepotGroup.groupNameToId	$qualifiedGroupName$	groupId
DepotObject.findAllHeadersByGroup	NAMED_OBJECT=groupId	-
SDepotObjectHeader.getName	no input	-
Utility.setTargetObject	no input	-
Utility.listPrint	no input	-

And we look in the SDepotObjectHeader namespace to see what's there.  And we have the same set of examples from our other post:

blcli_execute SmartDepotGroup groupNameToId "/Workspace/All Depot Objects"  
# or DepotGroup.groupNameToId with a Static Depot Group  
blcli_storelocal depotGroupId  
blcli_execute DepotObject findAllHeadersByGroup ${jobGroupId}  
blcli_execute SDepotObjectHeader getDBKey  
blcli_execute Utility setTargetObject  
blcli_execute Utility listPrint  
blcli_storelocal depotObjectKeys  

And as in the Server post we can use SDepotObjectHeader.getDepotObjectId to get the Job Id instead of the DBKey. and then as before we could iterate through the list of Depot Object Keys and do something like update a property value:

while read depotObjectKey  
  do  
  blcli_execute DepotObject setPropertyValue ${jobKey} APPLICATION_NAME Payroll
done <<< "$(awk 'NF' <<< "${depotObjectKeys}")"  

Or maybe I want to update the description on the object.  Since I can't find a blcli command to do that directly, it looks like I need to use one of the primitives - DepotOjbect.setDescription to do it.  That will involve loading the DepotObject object and then acting on it, and we can still use same list of Depot Object keys we get above:

while read depotObjectKey  
   do  
    blcli_execute DepotObject findByDBKey ${depotObjectKey}  
    blcli_execute Utility storeTargetObject obj  
    blcli_execute DepotObject setDescription "Payroll Application"
    blcli_execute DepotObject update NAMED_OBJECT=obj
done <<< "$(awk 'NF' <<< "${depotObjectKeys}")" 

Sometimes though I might just want to list out the DepotObject, the group path where it exists, the DepotObject type, etc.  All of that information seems to be available in commands in SDepotObjectHeader.  In that case I want to load the SDepotObjectHeader object and run some commands against it.

blcli_execute SmartDepotGroup groupNameToId "/Workspace/All Depot Objects"
# or DepotGroup.groupNameToId with a Static Depot Group  
blcli_storelocal objGroupId  
blcli_execute DepotObject findAllHeadersByGroup ${objGroupId}  
blcli_execute Utility storeTargetObject objHeaders  
blcli_execute Utility listLength  
blcli_storelocal listLength  
for i in {0..$((${listLength}-1))}  
    do  
    blcli_execute Utility setTargetObject objHeaders  
    blcli_execute Utility listItemSelect ${i}  
    blcli_execute Utility setTargetObject  
    blcli_execute SDepotObjectHeader getName  
    blcli_storelocal objName  
    blcli_execute SDepotObjectHeader getObjectTypeId  
    blcli_storelocal objTypeId  
    blcli_execute SDepotObjectHeader getDescription  
    blcli_storelocal objDesc  
    blcli_execute SDepotObjectHeader getGroupId  
    blcli_storelocal objGrpId  
    blcli_execute Group getQualifiedGroupName 5001 ${objGrpId}  
    blcli_storelocal groupPath  
    echo "${groupPath}/${objName},${objDesc},${objTypeId}"  
done 

This will echo out the Depot Folder and Name, the description and the object type id for the Depot Object.

This one was not much different than Jobs; a similar set of commands but from a different namespace.  Generally that's the case: the commands are the same across namespaces for the same actions.  Not always as you'll find out but most of the time.  That can make it easy to parameterize your commands to build out script functions like:

getName()
{
   local ns="${1}"
   local dbKey="${2}"
   blcli_execute ${ns} findByDBKey ${dbKey}
   blcli_execute ${ns} getName
   blcli_storeenv objName
   blcli_execute ${ns} getType
   blcli_storeenv objTypeId
}

This is nice because it's a single function instead of maintaining separate functions for each object type.  Even if the command name varies you can always do some conditionals and parameterize the command name based on the namespace.