Re: [wildfly-dev] HTTP API support for plain JBoss-CLI commands

On May 29, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Emmanuel Hugonnet <ehugonne(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Le 29/05/2015 18:52, Jason Greene a écrit : > >> On May 29, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Alexey Loubyansky <alexey.loubyansky(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> On 05/29/2015 02:51 PM, Darran Lofthouse wrote: >>> What we really have internally is a HTTP management interface and we >>> used to expose a native (JBoss Remoting) management interface that the >>> CLI would connect to - subsequently the CLI does connect to the HTTP >>> management interface but it performs a HTTP upgrade to now talk Remoting >>> over HTTP using DMR formatted messages. >>> >>> For the HTTP management interface json was selected as the payload type >>> so that clients could be written in many languages that have libraries >>> to talk HTTP and handle json. >>> >>> The CLI was then subsequently developed but with an emphasis on >>> assisting administrators constructing a request so things like tab >>> completion and automatic conversion. >>> >>> A couple of things this thread throws up that I think could be useful: - >>> - The ability to enter raw json requests into the CLI. >> >> There is a Jira issue open for this >> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-418 >> >>> - The ability to output the json representation of a command >>> constructed by the CLI. >> >> This is an easy one. There is echo-dmr command already. It could accept >> --json argument to further transform the result to JSON. > > Additionally I think we need: > > - Ability to transform a ModelNode into CLI calls, and potentially code in various languages (WFCORE-721) > - Enhance the HTTP server API to follow REST patterns, including JSON patching (WFCORE-722) > - Add support for CLI style addressing within a ModelNode operation (instead of doing a list of kv pairs, you just pass it a CLI style address string(“/foo=bar/blah=something/etc=etc”) This last bit is already in WF9 ;) https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-537 Emmanuel

> > -- > Jason T. Greene > WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect > JBoss, a division of Red Hat > > > _______________________________________________ > wildfly-dev mailing list > wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev