RoboHydra usage

The normal way to start a RoboHydra is specifying a configuration file with the plugins to load, and possibly other settings:

robohydra myconfig.conf

That will start a RoboHydra server listening on port 3000, which you can kill by hitting Ctrl-C on the console.

Not specifying a configuration file will normally result in an error, but you can specify the -n flag to make RoboHydra not read a configuration file. In that case, you can specify a list plugins to be loaded:

robohydra -n -P logger,replayer

You can load as many plugins as you want. Remember that the order is important: the heads declared in the first will catch requests before any heads defined in further plugins.

Findings plugins

RoboHydra has a list of directories where it looks for plugins. That list contains some system-wide directories, and robohydra/plugins. That means that, typically, a plugin called my-plugin will be found in robohydra/plugins/my-plugin/.

If you have your plugins in some other directory, you can add directories to the RoboHydra load path with the -I parameter, like so:

robohydra -I extra-plugins -n -P my-plugin

RoboHydra will in that case look for my-plugin under extra-plugins/my-plugin, then in the rest of the search directories.

Configuration values for plugins

You can also pass configuration key-value pairs from the command-line, like so:

robohydra myapp.conf path=tmp/test.log

This way, the configuration key path will be set to tmp/test.log for all plugins, overriding anything the configuration file says.

Other options

If you want RoboHydra to listen in a different port you can use the -p (or --port) option. If you don’t want RoboHydra to print anything on the console, use the -q (or --quiet) option.

Calling the robohydra program without any arguments whastoever will show the help.


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