[wildfly-dev] A write-attributes op, and dealing with complex attribute paths

[Heiko Braun]

It’s hard to see the full context of this email thread, but here are two proposals I would like to comment on: 

a) write attribute groups / or writing to attribute groups?
i.e :write-attribute-group(name=mygroup, value={attr1=a, attr2=b})

b) nested attribute syntax
i.e. :write-attributes(attributes=[{name=foo,value=123},{name=bar.baz.zap,value=hello}])


I think these are two different concerns, hence I am going to respond separately:

What’s the intention of proposal a)? Do you want to define new attribute groups this way or do you want to write values of attributes that belong to a specific group?

I have similar problems with proposal b). What’s the intention behind the nested attribute syntax? A more convenient way to address complex attributes? Or does this address attributes that belong to child resources?