[jboss-as7-dev] cli

[Brian Stansberry]

You rock. :-)

On 2/22/11 9:28 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> Ok, I created a branch 'cli' (from your cli-on-master), added
>    jline module,
>    command history,
>    tab-completion of commands starting with '/'
>    and command prompt including the current prefix.
>
> On 02/15/2011 03:58 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> Your detyped2 branch was a bit behind where master is now, so I
>> cherry-picked your commits onto a branch created from master and pushed
>> that out:
>>
>> https://github.com/bstansberry/jboss-as/commits/cli-on-master
>>
>> When you can back we can sort branching; should be simple.
>>
>> I pushed one non-merging related commit on that branch[1], which was a
>> quick and dirty fix to allow using other DMR types than ModelTyp.STRING
>> as param values. That was mostly to make it easy for me to experiment;
>> we can decide whether that's the right approach when you get back.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/bstansberry/jboss-as/commit/8a6ccf7bc0903f196399aa439de9a3e6cc5cfd76
>>
>> 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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