[jboss-as7-dev] "Read" operations

[Kabir Khan]

On 13 Jan 2011, at 22:08, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> 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.

Your wish shall be granted :-)

> 
> 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?

Sounds reasonable
> 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.

The main reason I did 'read' was that at the time it felt weird to have GlobalDescriptions.getGetXXXX(), so I can change that.
 I assume you want to keep f) as "read" or do you want that to be "get" as well?