I would prefer "Best effort" with warnings for the ones that are invalid.
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Florian Schmidt <flor...@datatorrent.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am currently extending the ApexCli so that the `shutdown-app` command > supports the both the appId and the appName as an argument (see > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-767 < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-767>) > > During the review of the pull request, the following discussion came up: > > When a user passes multiple appNames / appIds to the shutdown command > (e.g. shutdown-app appA appB appC) and e.g. appB does not exists, which one > of the two approaches do we want to go: > > "Best effort”: Try to shutdown all those apps where we can find an app to > the provided appName or appId. Print a warning if an app cannot found. > > “Validate and Fail”: Validate that all apps can be found by the provided > appId / appName. Do not run the command if one of the apps can’t be found > > This decision would probably influence the behavior of other CLI commands > in the future as well, so that they all behave in a consistent way. What > are your opinions? > > Regards > > Florian > > > >
