[wildfly-dev] syntax enhancement for cli boolean operation parameters

[Kabir Khan]

> On 26 Apr 2016, at 20:19, Alexey Loubyansky <alexey.loubyansky at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Just a brief announcement of a syntax enhancement in the CLI for boolean 
> parameters in operation requests. Just to advertise it and avoid 
> confusion with the changes in the tab-completion.
> 
> It's been quite some time ago since somebody (probably Kabir) gave me an 
> idea of how we could enhance the syntax for boolean parameters set to true.
> I.e. instead of typing :read-resource(recursive=true) all the time 
> :read-resource(recursive) should be enough.
> 
> So, the presence of a boolean parameter name w/o a value would mean the 
> parameter is implicitly set by the user to true.
> 
> While I liked the idea, I never actually implemented it. So I mentioned 
> it to Jeff (jfdenise) who is getting his hands on the CLI now and he 
> went ahead and did it.
> 
> So now
> 
> :read-resource(recursive) is equivalent to :read-resource(recursive=true)
> 
> Both syntaxes are allowed.
> 
> False is still set explicitly, i.g. :read-resource(recursive=false)
Could that be abbreviated as well? To for example 
:read-resource(!recursive)

I don't know if the new reserved character would have a negative impact though

> 
> The absence of the parameter still means the parameter was not provided 
> by the user.
> 
> Tab-completion has also been enhanced to suggest the shorter form for 
> true and still suggests the explicit form for false.
> 
> We hope you'll like it. Thanks Jeff for actually implementing it!
> 
> Alexey
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