[jboss-as7-dev] cli

[Brian Stansberry]

The param value parsing should be able to handle DMR notation and not 
just assume a string; i.e. this should work:

:add-namespace(namespace={"test"=>"urn:test:1.0"})

On 2/11/11 9:57 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> 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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Brian Stansberry
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