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

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.