[jboss-as7-dev] the cli status

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> BTW Max, think of our low level interface as being a better version of 
> twiddle (old JMX CLI).

Yep - I grok that; all the more reason why I would rather have that available via /<lowlevel> than
having to type /<highlevel command>.

Just saying the current approach is making the things that should be easy first, harder to reach.

/max

> 
> On 3/4/11 1:58 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> This looks great. We definitely needed to get the low-level stuff in
>> first as we need to support all possible changes. The more task oriented
>> higher level operations is something that should come in as a second
>> phase, but by nature they will be more limited, so will require some
>> thought on determining what the common operations are, and what level of
>> detail is needed per command. (Obviously things like start/stop server
>> and deploy etc)
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/4/11 12:09 PM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>>> Yes, it's low level. But it had to pass this mark too ;)
>>> 
>>> About '/' for the commands, I did it on purpose actually. Because I
>>> expected operations to be much more popular than commands (at least in
>>> the current state of things). It would be more annoying to prefix
>>> operations with '/' to me. Perhaps, there could be command mode and an
>>> operation mode, or something else. I'll think about it.
>>> 
>>> But the first line after the cli starts says 'type /help for...' ;)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>> 
>>> Alexey
>>> 
>>> On 03/04/2011 06:35 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>> Hi Alexey,
>>>> 
>>>> I tried the CLI for the first time today and I must say the syntax is complete opposite to anything else I know/tried.
>>>> 
>>>> i.e. when starting a cli I would expect being able to type "help" ...not /help
>>>> 
>>>> for me / would be much better of being what you use as a prefix shortcut to "execute" operations.
>>>> 
>>>> Beyond that I really find the interface too low level; not saying the features that are there shouldn't be there
>>>> but we should add some easier to get to features than by doing raw operations.
>>>> 
>>>> Just my first 5 minute impression - i'll try read your new docs and see if that can get me pass and actually execute something ;)
>>>> 
>>>> /max
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 17:33, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I started an article on the CLI here
>>>>> http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16581
>>>>> 
>>>>> which describes the currently supported features. Brian has just pulled
>>>>> it into the master.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You are welcome to give feedback, compensate my English and doc writing
>>>>> skills...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alexey
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>>>> /max
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>>>> 
>>>> 
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