Olle E Johansson wrote: > 15 nov 2007 kl. 13.22 skrev Tzafrir Cohen: > > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:43:40PM +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote: >> >>> While browsing the bug tracker today, I found a patch for adding more >>> "concise" commands to the SIP channel. >>> >>> My personal opinion is that I don't like adapting the CLI for machine >>> parsing. If we're about to do that, we might >>> as well convert all CLI listings in one big janitor project. But we >>> already have the manager for that kind of >>> communication - machine-parseable. We could easily write a wrapper >>> for /utils that replaces "asterisk -x" >>> for web applications and other scripts. >>> >>> I propose that we deprecate the existing "concise" commands in trunk, >>> don't accept new ones and refer >>> users and developers to our lovely AMI solution. >>> >> I have two potential issues with this: >> >> 1. "concise" tend to better fit in a 80-column terminal (such as the >> Linux console). >> > That won't be the case with other listings - we have much more > information > than what fits. The normal listings try to handle that by cutting off > data. > > I think it's simple to enable manager. We just need to provide a good > script that outputs the data in many different ways, maybe using awk > or something classy? > > /O > > I'm going to agree with Olle here. I think there should really be only one way / format to present information from the CLI and everything else should be driven through interfaces designed to deliver multiple formats (eg AMI).
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