[keycloak-dev] Why does WildFly CLI suck?

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 May, 2015 4:04:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Why does WildFly CLI suck?
> 
> CLI is a UI.  Generically rendered UIs generally suck.  For example, did
> not managing JBoss 4.x and earlier suck using some generic JMX UI
> renderer?  CLI falls into this category IMO.

+1 I've never been able to achieve anything without googling for a recipe

The fact that there's alternative commands for doing common tasks suggests that I'm not the only one. For example adding a data-source can be done with:

  /subsystem=datasources/data-source=MigrateDS:add(jndi-name=java:jboss/datasources/MigrateDS, pool-name=MigrateDS, driver-name=h2, connection-url=jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1)

or
  
  data-source add ...

The first auto-generated one is very hard to use, the whole syntax of the cli is weird in the first place and figuring how to puzzle that together is hopeless. The last one is much better, but there's very few of those easy to use commands available.

> 
> On 5/19/2015 9:42 AM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> > I've probably been too involved with it to be objective.  What are the
> > usability issues?
> > _______________________________________________
> > keycloak-dev mailing list
> > keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev
> >
> 
> --
> Bill Burke
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
> http://bill.burkecentral.com
> _______________________________________________
> keycloak-dev mailing list
> keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev
>