[wildfly-dev] HTTP API support for plain JBoss-CLI commands

[Jason T. Greene]

> On May 29, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Emmanuel Hugonnet <ehugonne at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 
> Le 29/05/2015 18:52, Jason Greene a écrit :
>> 
>>> On May 29, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Alexey Loubyansky <alexey.loubyansky at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 05/29/2015 02:51 PM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>>> What we really have internally is a HTTP management interface and we
>>>> used to expose a native (JBoss Remoting) management interface that the
>>>> CLI would connect to - subsequently the CLI does connect to the HTTP
>>>> management interface but it performs a HTTP upgrade to now talk Remoting
>>>> over HTTP using DMR formatted messages.
>>>> 
>>>> For the HTTP management interface json was selected as the payload type
>>>> so that clients could be written in many languages that have libraries
>>>> to talk HTTP and handle json.
>>>> 
>>>> The CLI was then subsequently developed but with an emphasis on
>>>> assisting administrators constructing a request so things like tab
>>>> completion and automatic conversion.
>>>> 
>>>> A couple of things this thread throws up that I think could be useful: -
>>>>  - The ability to enter raw json requests into the CLI.
>>> 
>>> There is a Jira issue open for this 
>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-418
>>> 
>>>>  - The ability to output the json representation of a command
>>>> constructed by the CLI.
>>> 
>>> This is an easy one. There is echo-dmr command already. It could accept 
>>> --json argument to further transform the result to JSON.
>> 
>> Additionally I think we need:
>> 
>> - Ability to transform a ModelNode into CLI calls, and potentially code in various languages (WFCORE-721)
>> - Enhance the HTTP server API to follow REST patterns, including JSON patching (WFCORE-722)
>> - Add support for CLI style addressing within a ModelNode operation (instead of doing a list of kv pairs, you just pass it a CLI style address string(“/foo=bar/blah=something/etc=etc”)
> 
> This last bit is already in WF9 ;) https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-537
> Emmanuel

Awesome! I didn't realize it was already in.

> 
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>> Jason T. Greene
>> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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