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

On 29 May 2015, at 18:52, Jason Greene <jason.greene(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > 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”) -- 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