[jboss-as7-dev] CLI parsing of complex params

[Brian Stansberry]

On 3/8/11 2:54 PM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> I'll add it to the testsuite and look into it.
>
> BTW, if you want the latest syntax proposed on the ml, it's in my branch
> cli-slash-syntax
> https://github.com/aloubyansky/jboss-as/commit/af26dff4e284bbeb3d7e3d26320cb6ef76935443
>

Cool. :-) Is that ready to merge, or just for me to play with?

>
> On 03/08/2011 06:55 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> I find myself using the CLI a lot for quick testing, so I'm trying out
>> some fairly complex operations.
>>
>> This one doesn't work:
>>
>> [~]
>> :composite(steps=[{"operation"=>"add-system-property","name"=>"test","value"="newValue"},{"operation"=>"add-system-property","name"=>"test2","value"=>"test2"}])
>>
>>
>> Argument name '"name"' is not a valid identifier or the format is wrong
>> for the argument list.
>>
>> This one does, so I know the ability to create a dmr ModelNode from a
>> param value is still there.
>>
>> [~] :add-namespace(namespace={"test"=>"test"})
>> {
>> "outcome" => "success",
>> "result" => undefined,
>> "compensating-operation" => {
>> "operation" => "remove-namespace",
>> "address" => [],
>> "namespace" => "test"
>> }
>> }
>>
>> I think the issue is the parser is searching for indexOf(',') as the way
>> to decide the end of a parameter name/value pair. It's probably going to
>> need to be more of a state-machine kind of thing where chars are read
>> one at a time and trigger state transitions.
>>


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Brian Stansberry
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