wsadmin - list methods of a Python module

This can be quite handy.

To see a list of references (to modules, strings, arrays etc) type dir() from the wsadmin prompt as follows...

wsadmin>dir()

The response will be something like...
['AdminApp', 'AdminApplication', 'AdminAuthorizations', 'AdminBLA', 'AdminClusterManagement', 'AdminConfig', 'AdminControl', 'AdminJ2C', 'AdminJDBC', 'AdminJMS', 'AdminLibHelp', 'AdminNodeGroupManagement', 'AdminNodeManagement', 'AdminResources', 'AdminServerManagement', 'AdminTask', 'AdminUtilities', 'ApplyPerfTuning', 'Help', 'LTPA_LDAPSecurityOff', 'LTPA_LDAPSecurityOn', 'TypedProxy', '__builtin__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'bsf', 'cellName', 'checkuserpw', 'doAuthenticationMechanism', 'doGlobalSecurity', 'doGlobalSecurityDisable', 'doLDAPUserRegistry', 'domainHostname', 'exportLTPAKey', 'flag', 'foo', 'forceSync', 'generateLTPAKeys', 'getLDAPUserRegistryId', 'getLTPAId', 'getSecId', 'getSecurityAdminMbean', 'imp', 'java', 'ldapPassword', 'ldapPort', 'ldapServer', 'ldapServerId', 'ldapUserRegistryId', 'lineSeparator', 'ltpaId', 'main', 'nodeName', 'osgiApplicationConsole', 'secMbean', 'securityId', 'securityoff', 'securityon', 'sleep', 'sys', 'whatEnv'] 

For those that are python modules (for example AdminResources is a module) you can run dir(<module name>) to list the methods within the function, fot exmaple...

wsadmin>dir(AdminResources)

Produces the following output...
['AdminUtilities', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'bundleName', 'createCompleteMailProvider', 'createCompleteMailProviderAtScope', 'createCompleteResourceEnvProvider', 'createCompleteResourceEnvProviderAtScope', 'createCompleteURLProvider', 'createCompleteURLProviderAtScope', 'createJAASAuthenticationAlias', 'createLibraryRef', 'createMailProvider', 'createMailProviderAtScope', 'createMailSession', 'createMailSessionAtScope', 'createProtocolProvider', 'createProtocolProviderAtScope', 'createResourceEnvEntries', 'createResourceEnvEntriesAtScope', 'createResourceEnvProvider', 'createResourceEnvProviderAtScope', 'createResourceEnvProviderRef', 'createResourceEnvProviderRefAtScope', 'createScheduler', 'createSchedulerAtScope', 'createSharedLibrary', 'createSharedLibraryAtScope', 'createURL', 'createURLAtScope', 'createURLProvider', 'createURLProviderAtScope', 'createWorkManager', 'createWorkManagerAtScope', 'help', 'resourceBundle', 'sys']

You'll see that one of the methods is createJAASAuthenticationAlias, which means you can run

wsadmin>AdminResources.createJAASAuthenticationAlias( authAlias, uid, password)

NOTE: I found out the args by running AdminResources.help('createJAASAuthenticationAlias')

Here's an example of importing a python module and querying/using it accordingly ...

wsadmin>import time

wsadmin>dir()
['AdminApp', 'AdminApplication', 'AdminAuthorizations', 'AdminBLA', 'AdminClusterManagement', 'AdminConfig', 'AdminControl', 'AdminJ2C', 'AdminJDBC', 'AdminJMS', 'AdminLibHelp', 'AdminNodeGroupManagement', 'AdminNodeManagement', 'AdminResources', 'AdminServerManagement', 'AdminTask', 'AdminUtilities', 'ApplyPerfTuning', 'Help', 'LTPA_LDAPSecurityOff', 'LTPA_LDAPSecurityOn', 'TypedProxy', '__builtin__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'bsf', 'cellName', 'checkuserpw', 'doAuthenticationMechanism', 'doGlobalSecurity', 'doGlobalSecurityDisable', 'doLDAPUserRegistry', 'domainHostname', 'exportLTPAKey', 'flag', 'foo', 'forceSync', 'generateLTPAKeys', 'getLDAPUserRegistryId', 'getLTPAId', 'getSecId', 'getSecurityAdminMbean', 'imp', 'java', 'ldapPassword', 'ldapPort', 'ldapServer', 'ldapServerId', 'ldapUserRegistryId', 'lineSeparator', 'ltpaId', 'main', 'nodeName', 'osgiApplicationConsole', 'secMbean', 'securityId', 'securityoff', 'securityon', 'sleep', 'sys', 'time', 'whatEnv']
 
wsadmin>time
<jclass org.python.modules.time at -1272186292>

wsadmin>type(time)
<jclass org.python.core.PyJavaClass at -779978699>

wsadmin>dir(time)
['__doc__', 'accept2dyear', 'altzone', 'asctime', 'classDictInit', 'clock', 'ctime', 'daylight', 'gmtime', 'localtime', 'mktime', 'sleep', 'strftime', 'time', 'timezone', 'tzname']

wsadmin>time.ctime()
'Tue Jan 06 10:20:33 2015'