[wildfly-dev] Customizing a provisioned server

[Brian Stansberry]

Yes, the CLI can be used as a library. But it works via remote 
communication, which IMHO is not something we should be doing here.

Running the server embedded in the tool with no ports open is fine though.

I think if people want to configure the server remotely they should 
launch it and use one of the existing tools.

On 9/4/14, 4:14 PM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> I thought that it was already possible to use the CLI in library mode?
>
> The tool will have access to a full server at the point it needs to do
> this (as the server has already been provisioned), so it could
> potentially just load the CLI lib from the provisioned server and use that.
>
> Stuart
>
> Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> Not necessarily. Everything in the end speaks the underlying management
>> API. But that doesn't mean the syntax needs to be the raw dmr or json
>> equivalent.
>>
>> This is primarily about UX and parsing. If we supported CLI syntax
>> there's no requirement to also parse basic DMR. The CLI itself doesn't.
>>
>> If we support CLI syntax though it seems logical to use the CLI libs
>> themselves to do it. Otherwise we are maintaining two code bases for the
>> same thing. (I doubt the CLI parsing code can easily be extracted out
>> for reuse, although I may be wrong.)
>>
>> On 9/4/14, 2:05 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>>> 2) builds on 3), right?
>>>
>>> On 04 Sep 2014, at 06:16, Stuart Douglas<sdouglas at redhat.com
>>> <mailto:sdouglas at redhat.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2) Allow the user to provide CLI commands to customise the server
>>>>
>>>> This is by far my favorite approach. The provisioning file would just
>>>> contain a list of CLI commands, and would execute them in order. I
>>>> think
>>>> this is by far the most intuitive, and the CLI is well documented.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Allow the user to provide DMR operations to customize the server
>>>>
>>>> Similar to 2, but allow the user to provide DMR or JSON operations to
>>>> customize the server. I think this is not nearly as nice as 2, as users
>>>> are much more likely to be familiar with the CLI rather than DMR.
>>>
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Brian Stansberry
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