[jboss-as7-dev] cli

[Alexey Loubyansky]

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
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