Flow Command Reference

The commands in this reference are shown with their full command identifiers. On your system you can use shorter identifiers, whose availability depends on the commands available in total (to avoid overlap the shortest possible identifier is determined during runtime).

To see the shortest possible identifiers on your system as well as further commands that may be available, use:

./flow help

The following reference was automatically generated from code on 2021-05-13

Package NEOS.FLOW

neos.flow:cache:collectgarbage

Cache Garbage Collection

Runs the Garbage Collection (collectGarbage) method on all registered caches.

Though the method is defined in the BackendInterface, the implementation can differ and might not remove any data, depending on possibilities of the backend.

Options

--cache-identifier
If set, this command only applies to the given cache

neos.flow:cache:flush

Flush all caches

The flush command flushes all caches (including code caches) which have been registered with Flow’s Cache Manager. It will NOT remove any session data, unless you specifically configure the session caches to not be persistent.

If fatal errors caused by a package prevent the compile time bootstrap from running, the removal of any temporary data can be forced by specifying the option –force.

This command does not remove the precompiled data provided by frozen packages unless the –force option is used.

Options

--force
Force flushing of any temporary data

neos.flow:cache:flushone

Flushes a particular cache by its identifier

Given a cache identifier, this flushes just that one cache. To find the cache identifiers, you can use the configuration:show command with the type set to “Caches”.

Note that this does not have a force-flush option since it’s not meant to remove temporary code data, resulting into a broken state if code files lack.

Arguments

--identifier
Cache identifier to flush cache for

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:flush
Flush all caches
neos.flow:configuration:show
Show the active configuration settings

neos.flow:cache:list

List all configured caches and their status if available

This command will exit with a code 1 if at least one cache status contains errors or warnings This allows the command to be easily integrated in CI setups (the –quiet flag can be used to reduce verbosity)

Options

--quiet
If set, this command only outputs errors & warnings

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:show
Display details of a cache including a detailed status if available

neos.flow:cache:setup

Setup the given Cache if possible

Invokes the setup() method on the configured CacheBackend (if it implements the WithSetupInterface) which should setup and validate the backend (i.e. create required database tables, directories, …)

Arguments

--cache-identifier

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:list
List all configured caches and their status if available
neos.flow:cache:setupall
Setup all Caches

neos.flow:cache:setupall

Setup all Caches

Invokes the setup() method on all configured CacheBackend that implement the WithSetupInterface interface which should setup and validate the backend (i.e. create required database tables, directories, …)

This command will exit with a code 1 if at least one cache setup failed This allows the command to be easily integrated in CI setups (the –quiet flag can be used to reduce verbosity)

Options

--quiet
If set, this command only outputs errors & warnings

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:setup
Setup the given Cache if possible

neos.flow:cache:show

Display details of a cache including a detailed status if available

Arguments

--cache-identifier
identifier of the cache (for example “Flow_Core”)

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:list
List all configured caches and their status if available

neos.flow:cache:warmup

Warm up caches

The warm up caches command initializes and fills – as far as possible – all registered caches to get a snappier response on the first following request. Apart from caches, other parts of the application may hook into this command and execute tasks which take further steps for preparing the app for the big rush.

Related commands

neos.flow:cache:flush
Flush all caches

neos.flow:configuration:generateschema

Generate a schema for the given configuration or YAML file.

./flow configuration:generateschema –type Settings –path Neos.Flow.persistence

The schema will be output to standard output.

Options

--type
Configuration type to create a schema for
--path
path to the subconfiguration separated by “.” like “Neos.Flow
--yaml
YAML file to create a schema for

neos.flow:configuration:listtypes

List registered configuration types

neos.flow:configuration:show

Show the active configuration settings

The command shows the configuration of the current context as it is used by Flow itself. You can specify the configuration type and path if you want to show parts of the configuration.

Display all settings: ./flow configuration:show

Display Flow persistence settings: ./flow configuration:show –path Neos.Flow.persistence

Display Flow Object Cache configuration ./flow configuration:show –type Caches –path Flow_Object_Classes

Options

--type
Configuration type to show, defaults to Settings
--path
path to subconfiguration separated by “.” like “Neos.Flow

neos.flow:configuration:validate

Validate the given configuration

Validate all configuration ./flow configuration:validate

Validate configuration at a certain subtype ./flow configuration:validate –type Settings –path Neos.Flow.persistence

You can retrieve the available configuration types with: ./flow configuration:listtypes

Options

--type
Configuration type to validate
--path
path to the subconfiguration separated by “.” like “Neos.Flow
--verbose
if true, output more verbose information on the schema files which were used

neos.flow:core:migrate

Migrate source files as needed

This will apply pending code migrations defined in packages to the specified package.

For every migration that has been run, it will create a commit in the package. This allows for easy inspection, rollback and use of the fixed code. If the affected package contains local changes or is not part of a git repository, the migration will be skipped. With the –force flag this behavior can be changed, but changes will only be committed if the working copy was clean before applying the migration.

Arguments

--package
The key of the package to migrate

Options

--status
Show the migration status, do not run migrations
--packages-path
If set, use the given path as base when looking for packages
--version
If set, execute only the migration with the given version (e.g. “20150119114100”)
--verbose
If set, notes and skipped migrations will be rendered
--force
By default packages that are not under version control or contain local changes are skipped. With this flag set changes are applied anyways (changes are not committed if there are local changes though)

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema

neos.flow:core:setfilepermissions

Adjust file permissions for CLI and web server access

This command adjusts the file permissions of the whole Flow application to the given command line user and webserver user / group.

Arguments

--commandline-user
User name of the command line user, for example “john
--webserver-user
User name of the webserver, for example “www-data
--webserver-group
Group name of the webserver, for example “www-data

neos.flow:core:shell

Run the interactive Shell

The shell command runs Flow’s interactive shell. This shell allows for entering commands like through the regular command line interface but additionally supports autocompletion and a user-based command history.

neos.flow:database:setcharset

Convert the database schema to use the given character set and collation (defaults to utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci).

This command can be used to convert the database configured in the Flow settings to the utf8mb4 character set and the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation (by default, a custom collation can be given). It will only work when using the pdo_mysql driver.

Make a backup before using it, to be on the safe side. If you want to inspect the statements used for conversion, you can use the $output parameter to write them into a file. This file can be used to do the conversion manually.

For background information on this, see:

The main purpose of this is to fix setups that were created with Flow before version 5.0. In those cases, the tables will have a collation that does not match the default collation of later Flow versions, potentially leading to problems when creating foreign key constraints (among others, potentially).

If you have special needs regarding the charset and collation, you can override the defaults with different ones.

Note: This command is not a general purpose conversion tool. It will specifically not fix cases of actual utf8 stored in latin1 columns. For this a conversion to BLOB followed by a conversion to the proper type, charset and collation is needed instead.

Options

--character-set
Character set, defaults to utf8mb4
--collation
Collation to use, defaults to utf8mb4_unicode_ci
--output
A file to write SQL to, instead of executing it
--verbose
If set, the statements will be shown as they are executed

neos.flow:doctrine:create

Create the database schema

Creates a new database schema based on the current mapping information.

It expects the database to be empty, if tables that are to be created already exist, this will lead to errors.

Options

--output
A file to write SQL to, instead of executing it

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:update
Update the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema

neos.flow:doctrine:dql

Run arbitrary DQL and display results

Any DQL queries passed after the parameters will be executed, the results will be output:

doctrine:dql –limit 10 ‘SELECT a FROM NeosFlowSecurityAccount a’

Options

--depth
How many levels deep the result should be dumped
--hydration-mode
One of: object, array, scalar, single-scalar, simpleobject
--offset
Offset the result by this number
--limit
Limit the result to this number

neos.flow:doctrine:entitystatus

Show the current status of entities and mappings

Shows basic information about which entities exist and possibly if their mapping information contains errors or not.

To run a full validation, use the validate command.

Options

--dump-mapping-data
If set, the mapping data will be output
--entity-class-name
If given, the mapping data for just this class will be output

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:validate
Validate the class/table mappings

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate

Migrate the database schema

Adjusts the database structure by applying the pending migrations provided by currently active packages.

Options

--version
The version to migrate to
--output
A file to write SQL to, instead of executing it
--dry-run
Whether to do a dry run or not
--quiet
If set, only the executed migration versions will be output, one per line

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrationstatus
Show the current migration status
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationexecute
Execute a single migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationgenerate
Generate a new migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationversion
Mark/unmark migrations as migrated

neos.flow:doctrine:migrationexecute

Execute a single migration

Manually runs a single migration in the given direction.

Arguments

--version
The migration to execute

Options

--direction
Whether to execute the migration up (default) or down
--output
A file to write SQL to, instead of executing it
--dry-run
Whether to do a dry run or not

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationstatus
Show the current migration status
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationgenerate
Generate a new migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationversion
Mark/unmark migrations as migrated

neos.flow:doctrine:migrationgenerate

Generate a new migration

If $diffAgainstCurrent is true (the default), it generates a migration file with the diff between current DB structure and the found mapping metadata.

Otherwise an empty migration skeleton is generated.

Only includes tables/sequences matching the $filterExpression regexp when diffing models and existing schema. Include delimiters in the expression! The use of

–filter-expression ‘/^acme_com/’

would only create a migration touching tables starting with “acme_com”.

Note: A filter-expression will overrule any filter configured through the Neos.Flow.persistence.doctrine.migrations.ignoredTables setting

Options

--diff-against-current
Whether to base the migration on the current schema structure
--filter-expression
Only include tables/sequences matching the filter expression regexp
--force
Generate migrations even if there are migrations left to execute

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationstatus
Show the current migration status
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationexecute
Execute a single migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationversion
Mark/unmark migrations as migrated

neos.flow:doctrine:migrationstatus

Show the current migration status

Displays the migration configuration as well as the number of available, executed and pending migrations.

Options

--show-migrations
Output a list of all migrations and their status
--show-descriptions
Show descriptions for the migrations (enables versions display)

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationexecute
Execute a single migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationgenerate
Generate a new migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationversion
Mark/unmark migrations as migrated

neos.flow:doctrine:migrationversion

Mark/unmark migrations as migrated

If all is given as version, all available migrations are marked as requested.

Arguments

--version
The migration to execute

Options

--add
The migration to mark as migrated
--delete
The migration to mark as not migrated

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationstatus
Show the current migration status
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationexecute
Execute a single migration
neos.flow:doctrine:migrationgenerate
Generate a new migration

neos.flow:doctrine:update

Update the database schema

Updates the database schema without using existing migrations.

It will not drop foreign keys, sequences and tables, unless –unsafe-mode is set.

Options

--unsafe-mode
If set, foreign keys, sequences and tables can potentially be dropped.
--output
A file to write SQL to, instead of executing the update directly

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:create
Create the database schema
neos.flow:doctrine:migrate
Migrate the database schema

neos.flow:doctrine:validate

Validate the class/table mappings

Checks if the current class model schema is valid. Any inconsistencies in the relations between models (for example caused by wrong or missing annotations) will be reported.

Note that this does not check the table structure in the database in any way.

Related commands

neos.flow:doctrine:entitystatus
Show the current status of entities and mappings

neos.flow:help:help

Display help for a command

The help command displays help for a given command: ./flow help <commandIdentifier>

Options

--command-identifier
Identifier of a command for more details

neos.flow:package:create

Create a new package

This command creates a new package which contains only the mandatory directories and files.

Arguments

--package-key
The package key of the package to create

Options

--package-type
The package type of the package to create

Related commands

neos.kickstarter:kickstart:package
Kickstart a new package

neos.flow:package:freeze

Freeze a package

This function marks a package as frozen in order to improve performance in a development context. While a package is frozen, any modification of files within that package won’t be tracked and can lead to unexpected behavior.

File monitoring won’t consider the given package. Further more, reflection data for classes contained in the package is cached persistently and loaded directly on the first request after caches have been flushed. The precompiled reflection data is stored in the Configuration directory of the respective package.

By specifying all as a package key, all currently frozen packages are frozen (the default).

Options

--package-key
Key of the package to freeze

Related commands

neos.flow:package:unfreeze
Unfreeze a package
neos.flow:package:refreeze
Refreeze a package

neos.flow:package:list

List available packages

Lists all locally available packages. Displays the package key, version and package title.

Options

--loading-order
The returned packages are ordered by their loading order.

neos.flow:package:refreeze

Refreeze a package

Refreezes a currently frozen package: all precompiled information is removed and file monitoring will consider the package exactly once, on the next request. After that request, the package remains frozen again, just with the updated data.

By specifying all as a package key, all currently frozen packages are refrozen (the default).

Options

--package-key
Key of the package to refreeze, or ‘all’

Related commands

neos.flow:package:freeze
Freeze a package
neos.flow:cache:flush
Flush all caches

neos.flow:package:rescan

Rescan package availability and recreates the PackageStates configuration.

neos.flow:package:unfreeze

Unfreeze a package

Unfreezes a previously frozen package. On the next request, this package will be considered again by the file monitoring and related services – if they are enabled in the current context.

By specifying all as a package key, all currently frozen packages are unfrozen (the default).

Options

--package-key
Key of the package to unfreeze, or ‘all’

Related commands

neos.flow:package:freeze
Freeze a package
neos.flow:cache:flush
Flush all caches

neos.flow:resource:clean

Clean up resource registry

This command checks the resource registry (that is the database tables) for orphaned resource objects which don’t seem to have any corresponding data anymore (for example: the file in Data/Persistent/Resources has been deleted without removing the related PersistentResource object).

If the Neos.Media package is active, this command will also detect any assets referring to broken resources and will remove the respective Asset object from the database when the broken resource is removed.

This command will ask you interactively what to do before deleting anything.

neos.flow:resource:copy

Copy resources

This command copies all resources from one collection to another storage identified by name. The target storage must be empty and must not be identical to the current storage of the collection.

This command merely copies the binary data from one storage to another, it does not change the related PersistentResource objects in the database in any way. Since the PersistentResource objects in the database refer to a collection name, you can use this command for migrating from one storage to another my configuring the new storage with the name of the old storage collection after the resources have been copied.

Arguments

--source-collection
The name of the collection you want to copy the assets from
--target-collection
The name of the collection you want to copy the assets to

Options

--publish
If enabled, the target collection will be published after the resources have been copied

neos.flow:resource:publish

Publish resources

This command publishes the resources of the given or - if none was specified, all - resource collections to their respective configured publishing targets.

Options

--collection
If specified, only resources of this collection are published. Example: ‘persistent’

neos.flow:routing:getpath

Generate a route path

This command takes package, controller and action and displays the generated route path and the selected route:

./flow routing:getPath –format json Acme.Demo\Sub\Package

Arguments

--package
Package key and subpackage, subpackage parts are separated with backslashes

Options

--controller
Controller name, default is ‘Standard’
--action
Action name, default is ‘index’
--format
Requested Format name default is ‘html’

neos.flow:routing:list

List the known routes

This command displays a list of all currently registered routes.

neos.flow:routing:routepath

Route the given route path

This command takes a given path and displays the detected route and the selected package, controller and action.

Arguments

--path
The route path to resolve

Options

--method
The request method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, …) to simulate

neos.flow:routing:show

Show information for a route

This command displays the configuration of a route specified by index number.

Arguments

--index
The index of the route as given by routing:list

neos.flow:schema:validate

Validate the given configurationfile againt a schema file

Options

--configuration-file
path to the validated configuration file
--schema-file
path to the schema file
--verbose
if true, output more verbose information on the schema files which were used

neos.flow:schema:validateschema

Validate the given configurationfile againt a schema file

Arguments

--configuration-file
path to the validated configuration file

Options

--schema-file
path to the schema file
--verbose
if true, output more verbose information on the schema files which were used

neos.flow:security:generatekeypair

Generate a public/private key pair and add it to the RSAWalletService

Options

--used-for-passwords
If the private key should be used for passwords

Related commands

neos.flow:security:importprivatekey
Import a private key

neos.flow:security:importprivatekey

Import a private key

Read a PEM formatted private key from stdin and import it into the RSAWalletService. The public key will be automatically extracted and stored together with the private key as a key pair.

You can generate the same fingerprint returned from this using these commands:

ssh-keygen -yf my-key.pem > my-key.pub ssh-keygen -lf my-key.pub

To create a private key to import using this method, you can use:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f my-key ./flow security:importprivatekey < my-key

Again, the fingerprint can also be generated using:

ssh-keygen -lf my-key.pub

Options

--used-for-passwords
If the private key should be used for passwords

Related commands

neos.flow:security:importpublickey
Import a public key
neos.flow:security:generatekeypair
Generate a public/private key pair and add it to the RSAWalletService

neos.flow:security:importpublickey

Import a public key

Read a PEM formatted public key from stdin and import it into the RSAWalletService.

Related commands

neos.flow:security:importprivatekey
Import a private key

neos.flow:security:showeffectivepolicy

Shows a list of all defined privilege targets and the effective permissions

Arguments

--privilege-type
The privilege type (“entity”, “method” or the FQN of a class implementing PrivilegeInterface)

Options

--roles
A comma separated list of role identifiers. Shows policy for an unauthenticated user when left empty.

neos.flow:security:showmethodsforprivilegetarget

Shows the methods represented by the given security privilege target

If the privilege target has parameters those can be specified separated by a colon for example “parameter1:value1” “parameter2:value2”. But be aware that this only works for parameters that have been specified in the policy

Arguments

--privilege-target
The name of the privilegeTarget as stated in the policy

neos.flow:security:showunprotectedactions

Lists all public controller actions not covered by the active security policy

neos.flow:server:run

Run a standalone development server

Starts an embedded server, see http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php Note: This requires PHP 5.4+

To change the context Flow will run in, you can set the FLOW_CONTEXT environment variable: export FLOW_CONTEXT=Development && ./flow server:run

Options

--host
The host name or IP address for the server to listen on
--port
The server port to listen on

neos.flow:session:destroyall

Destroys all sessions.

This special command is needed, because sessions are kept in persistent storage and are not flushed with other caches by default.

This is functionally equivalent to ./flow flow:cache:flushOne Flow_Session_Storage && ./flow flow:cache:flushOne Flow_Session_MetaData

neos.flow:typeconverter:list

Lists all currently active and registered type converters

All active converters are listed with ordered by priority and grouped by source type first and target type second.

Options

--source
Filter by source
--target
Filter by target type

Package NEOS.FLUIDADAPTOR

neos.fluidadaptor:documentation:generatexsd

Generate Fluid ViewHelper XSD Schema

Generates Schema documentation (XSD) for your ViewHelpers, preparing the file to be placed online and used by any XSD-aware editor. After creating the XSD file, reference it in your IDE and import the namespace in your Fluid template by adding the xmlns:* attribute(s): <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:f=”https://neos.io/ns/Neos/Neos/ViewHelpers” …>

Arguments

--php-namespace
Namespace of the Fluid ViewHelpers without leading backslash (for example ‘NeosFluidAdaptorViewHelpers’). NOTE: Quote and/or escape this argument as needed to avoid backslashes from being interpreted!

Options

--xsd-namespace
Unique target namespace used in the XSD schema (for example “http://yourdomain.org/ns/viewhelpers”). Defaults to “https://neos.io/ns/<php namespace>”.
--target-file
File path and name of the generated XSD schema. If not specified the schema will be output to standard output.
--xsd-domain
Domain used in the XSD schema (for example “http://yourdomain.org”). Defaults to “https://neos.io”.