[jboss-as7-dev] "Read" operations

[Brian Stansberry]

Kabir,

A couple more comments re: [1] following the discussion in #jboss-as7:

1) Instead of or in addition to the READ_ATTRIBUTE_OF_TYPE op, I was 
looking for something like:

{
   "op" => "read-children-names",
   "op-addr" => [
     ("profile" => "production")
   ],
   "child-type" => "subsystem"
}

which would then return a list of the names of all subsystems.

2) Assume people are going to have to type some of these a lot, so let's 
find short names for these operations:


a) public static final String READ_ATTRIBUTES_OF_TYPE_OPERATION =
    "read-attributes-of-type-operation";

"read-attributes-of-type" if the behavior remains the same, else 
"read-children-names"

b) public static final String READ_NAMED_ATTRIBUTE_OPERATION =
    "read-named-attribute-operation";

"read-attribute"

c) public static final String READ_NODE_DESCRIPTION_OPERATION =
    "read-node-description-operation";

"read-resource-description"

d) public static final String READ_OPERATION_OPERATION =
    "read-operation-operation";

"read-operation-description"

e) public static final String READ_OPERATIONS_SUMMARY_OPERATION =
    "read-operations-summary-operation";

"read-operation-names"

f) public static final String READ_SUB_MODEL_OPERATION =
    "read-sub-model-operation";

"read"

For this last one, we could add a required=false "attribute" param, make 
the existing "recursive" property required=false, and collapse b) and f) 
into a single operation named "read". WDYT?

I have a desire to replace "read" with "get" in all of the above, but 
that may be too many years of Java development talking.

[1] 
https://github.com/kabir/jboss-as/commit/2fa26198246f0d07b0e48c95dea6728abef49d04


-- 
Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat