[wildfly-dev] identify runtime operations ?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 5/2/13 7:28 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> It seems like the more useful distinction is "operations which are
> always available" and "operations which are only available in runtime
> mode" i.e. not in management mode.
>

Yes, this is the practical effect. An operation with the RUNTIME_ONLY 
flag is basically stating it doesn't effect the persistent configuration 
model, and would be useless in management mode.

> Every other case seems like "read" versus "write" to me.  You either
> query the container state, or you modify it.
>
> On 05/02/2013 07:24 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> There is a flag that can be associated with an operation, RUNTIME_ONLY,
>> that indicates an op only affects runtime. It isn't used much, largely
>> because there hasn't been a consistent use case. The access control
>> stuff will lead to consistent use though.
>>
>> I'm not sure if that's your question though. Almost all operations
>> affect runtime state, either immediately or by putting the process in
>> reload-required/restart-required. And there's metadata describing those
>> effects.
>>
>> I say almost all because of a couple oddities like
>> add/remove-namespace/schema-location which only affect the config model
>> and the xml file.
>>
>> On 5/2/13 7:17 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>>> 	
>>>
>>> Is it possible to identify operations that affect the runtime state (i.e. start/stop services) ?
>>>
>>> I was looking at a datasource example, but couldn't find any metadata related to that:
>>>
>>> [standalone at localhost:9999 /] /subsystem=datasources/data-source=ExampleDS:read-operation-description(name=enable)
>>> {
>>>        "outcome" => "success",
>>>        "result" => {
>>>            "operation-name" => "enable",
>>>            "description" => "Enable the data-source",
>>>            "request-properties" => {"persistent" => {
>>>                "type" => BOOLEAN,
>>>                "description" => "if true enable attribute is persisted",
>>>                "expressions-allowed" => false,
>>>                "required" => true,
>>>                "nillable" => false,
>>>                "default" => true
>>>            }},
>>>            "reply-properties" => {},
>>>            "read-only" => false
>>>        }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards, Heiko
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>>
>>
>
>


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Brian Stansberry
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