Add recursive option for retrieving entries/folders

[timstoop]

Hi,

Thanks for the great tool, makes my life so much easier!

Is there a way to retrieve all entries on a path including the subdirectories in there? The answer is probably "no", as I cannot find a switch for it, but I thought it good to ask anyway!

[marevers]

Hello @timstoop , thanks for your comments, great to hear that.

Currently there isn't a recursive option. I assume you would like to retrieve a list of entries/folders within a folder and all of the subfolders (or up to a certain depth)?

If you're willing to take a shot at implementing it, I would be willing to accept a PR for it.

[timstoop]

Hi @marevers , if it was Python or Rust, I might've tried, but sadly, I'm no Golang programmer :-(

We use pleasant server to store things like kubeconfigs centrally for all the k8s clusters we maintain. Separate folders per customer and the like. Sometimes with subfolders when there are more than 2 clusters. We "abuse" the username "kubeconfig" for this, so it's easy to retrieve the correct configs. The rest of the company uses a script to get all of them at once, but prefer my own workflow (with getenv and customer specific local directories) and create the kubeconfig per customer. Now I need to modify the script for each customer when there are subfolders to make sure I check those as well. Being able to just say "give me all document from this folder and any subfolder" would be a small improvement to the way I work. So nothing critical, just something that would be appreciated.

Maybe add a backburner tag as well or possibly good-first-issue or something to convince aspiring open source devs to take a look at it? :-)

[marevers]

Thanks for the info around the usecase and valid point if you don't use a static structure to retrieve it. Currently I don't have the time to work on these larger feature requests, but I will add a tag for possible other contributors (or possibly future me) :)

For anyone willing to contribute this, my idea of a possible implementation is this:

• Add a --recursive flag to the get entry and get folder commands
• The flag should optionally be able to take a number as value, which is the level of folders it will travel down the tree - if no number or 0 is provided, the command will travel down to the end / infinitely