List Profiles (profiles list) 📂

What it Does

Displays all available profile names from profiles.json (login/server/password settings for connecting to MT5).

Subcommand of the profiles group. Invoke as profiles list (alias: ls).

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Input Parameters ⬇️

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
--output, -o	string	no	text (default) or json.

--timeout-ms is not supported for this subcommand.

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Output ⬆️

Text mode

Profiles:
- default
- demo
- live

JSON mode

["default","demo","live"]

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How to Use 🛠️

# Text
dotnet run -- profiles list

# JSON
dotnet run -- profiles list -o json

PowerShell Shortcuts

. .\ps\shortcasts.ps1
use-pf demo   # set current profile to demo
pf list       # same as: profiles list

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Notes & Safety 🛡️

• File path: profiles.json is read from AppContext.BaseDirectory.
• If the file is missing or empty → text: profiles.json not found or empty., json: [].
• If parsing fails (invalid JSON) → error is printed via ErrorPrinter and the command exits with code 1.
• Iteration order of profile names is not guaranteed. Sort if you need stable output.

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Code Reference 🧷

// Read & print
var dict = ReadProfiles();
if (IsJson(output))
    Console.WriteLine(ToJson(dict.Keys.ToArray()));
else
{
    if (dict.Count == 0) { Console.WriteLine("profiles.json not found or empty."); return; }
    Console.WriteLine("Profiles:");
    foreach (var name in dict.Keys) Console.WriteLine($"- {name}");
}

Helper

private Dictionary<string, MT5Options> ReadProfiles()
{
    var path = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "profiles.json");
    if (!File.Exists(path)) return new();
    var json = File.ReadAllText(path);
    return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, MT5Options>>(json,
        new JsonSerializerOptions { PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = true }) ?? new();
}