Re: [jboss-as7-dev] cli

Just FYI, in case of discussions, etc, I'm on PTO next week. From Sunday to Thursday afternoon I won't have reliable Internet access. On 02/11/2011 04:50 PM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote: > I'd like to give a status update on what I've done so far, collect some > feedback and get a sense of direction for the roadmap. > > So, so far it's a primitive thing. There is a script jboss-admin.sh(bat) > under the JBOSS_HOME/bin. It starts a cli as a module (I found it easier > this way). > > First thing to do is to connect to the server. It's done with > > /connect [host]:[port] > > Default host is localhost, default port is 9999. > > BTW, for the list of supported commands type /help. Besides /connection > and /help there are /quit and /prefix. > > Anything that doesn't start with '/' is considered an operation request. > Operation requests are currently following the format: > > [node-type=node-name [, node-type=node-name]*] : operation-name > ([name=value [, name=value]*]) > > e.g. > profile=production,subsystem=threads,bounded-queue-thread-pool=pool1:write-core-threads(count=0, > per-cpu=20) > > Whitespaces between separators are insignificant. > If the address part is not specified then the ':' before the operation > name is optional. > If the operation has no arguments then the brackets '()' are optional. > > So, if we are at the root, just 'read-resource' will work. > > The result of the operation for now is logged by invoking toString() on > it, so it's formatted as on the wiki. > > About the /prefix command (it has an alias '/to'). It's an analogue of > the 'cd'. I.e. It specifies a node path prefix for an operation request > before it gets executed. E.g. > > /to subsystem=logging > read-resource > > will be equivalent to subsystem=logging:read-resource executed from the > root. > > It's also possible to end the prefix on the node type, e.g. > /to subsystem > logging:read-resource > > will be equivalent to the above. > > /to ~ - means go to the root. > '..' - go to the parent node. > .type - go to the node type of the current node. > > /prefix (or /to) w/o arguments will print the current prefix value. BTW, > the prefix is not verified to be a valid one (except from the syntax > point of view). If the prefix is wrong the operations will fail, of course. > > That's about it for now. So, we talked a bit today with Emanuel and Max > about it. To improve usability we thought of adding: > - some sort of autocompletion (for the commands, node types/names, > operations); > - having higher level management commands on top of the operation > requests, to avoid the verbose syntax of the operation requests for some > common things like deploy/undeploy, add a datasource, etc. > - use the jline for the input (currently it's BufferedReader.readLine()). > > Any other ideas, suggestions? > > BTW, it's currently in my detyped2 branch. > > Thanks, > Alexey > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev