[wildfly-dev] syntax enhancement for cli boolean operation parameters

[Jean-Francois Denise]

Hi Kabir,
I just logged https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-1514
I have started to work on it.
Thanks.
JF

On 26/04/16 21:27, Kabir Khan wrote:
>> On 26 Apr 2016, at 20:19, Alexey Loubyansky <alexey.loubyansky at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just a brief announcement of a syntax enhancement in the CLI for boolean
>> parameters in operation requests. Just to advertise it and avoid
>> confusion with the changes in the tab-completion.
>>
>> It's been quite some time ago since somebody (probably Kabir) gave me an
>> idea of how we could enhance the syntax for boolean parameters set to true.
>> I.e. instead of typing :read-resource(recursive=true) all the time
>> :read-resource(recursive) should be enough.
>>
>> So, the presence of a boolean parameter name w/o a value would mean the
>> parameter is implicitly set by the user to true.
>>
>> While I liked the idea, I never actually implemented it. So I mentioned
>> it to Jeff (jfdenise) who is getting his hands on the CLI now and he
>> went ahead and did it.
>>
>> So now
>>
>> :read-resource(recursive) is equivalent to :read-resource(recursive=true)
>>
>> Both syntaxes are allowed.
>>
>> False is still set explicitly, i.g. :read-resource(recursive=false)
> Could that be abbreviated as well? To for example
> :read-resource(!recursive)
>
> I don't know if the new reserved character would have a negative impact though
>
>> The absence of the parameter still means the parameter was not provided
>> by the user.
>>
>> Tab-completion has also been enhanced to suggest the shorter form for
>> true and still suggests the explicit form for false.
>>
>> We hope you'll like it. Thanks Jeff for actually implementing it!
>>
>> Alexey
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