Dockerode: How to get an interactive shell and send commands to docker and get the responses

[ehsanshekari]

Hello.

I want to get an interactive shell from my remote docker container to type commands and get back the responses.

I read the documentation and examples but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Could someone please provide a sample code, for example a code snippet that creates and run an ubuntu container and then connect to this container to execute simple commands.

I think this code sample would be useful for people who are new to docker like me.
Thanks.

[ehsanshekari]

This Example Helped https://github.com/apocas/dockerode/blob/master/examples/run_stdin.js
But every letter is written two times in the screen.
for example ls command is converted to llss

[ehsanshekari]

This Link helped me to solve the duplicate letter problem.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24661774/createinterface-prints-double-in-terminal

[ehsanshekari]

I could not solve the duplication of letters.
When I use
readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout, terminal: false })
mentioned in previous stackoverflow link I loose the terminal behavior like using tab and arrow keys.

[ghost]

@ehsanshekari
the following tyepscript code work for me

@apocas it will be usefull to share the following code in your docs or example it more helpfull than attach example

  public async interactiveShell(containerName: string) {
    const container = this.dockerApi.getContainer(
      containerName
    );

    const exec = await container.exec({
      Cmd: ['sh'],
      AttachStderr: true,
      AttachStdout: true,
      AttachStdin: true,
      Tty: true,
    });

    const http = await exec.start({stdin: true});
    const stream = http.output;

    (<any>process.stdin).setRawMode(true);
    stream.pipe(process.stdout);
    process.stdin.pipe(stream);

    await new Promise(resolve => {
      stream.on('end', resolve);
    });

    (<any>process.stdin).setRawMode(false);
    process.stdin.resume();

  }

[apocas]

This one seems tackled, going to close it.
Please feel free to submit a merge request with that example :)