On Aug 21, 2007, at 11:40 PM, David Jencks wrote:
I played around with this a little bit and really like it.
Yay! Thanks for taking a look David!
Some things I'd like to see soon:
- stop the server w/o stopping the shell
- run app clients
- run the deployers (including plugin deployer). esp. for plugins
it might be nice to be able to set the repo to look at as an "env
var" in gshell and have partial listings or artifact name
completion or something like that.
I plan to make GShell commands for all of the above soon, was just
waiting for folks to take a look at the start-server bits I added as
a POC and get feedback before I dive into all the other commands.
Though you can still run the existing scripts to use those tools, but
ya I do plan on adding them as GShell commands soon ;-)
- easy way to debug, setting the port and suspend, perhaps again
with 'env vars"
Yup, we can add any flags to 'start-server' which help make life
easier... probably need to get those bits from the geronimo.sh script
ported over too, 'jpda, start, stop, run, etc'.
You can current do stuff like this in the shell:
> set debug_flags=foo
And then commands have that context passed in... but so far, except
for the 'set' and 'unset' commands no commands use that context yet.
There is also a evil bug in the current parser that freaks out on
quotes... which I hope to get fixed soon.
- easy way to set e.g. portOffet. IIUC you can set them with -
Dorg.apache.geronimo.configuration.portOffset=1 but having a way of
leaving out the prefix would be handy.... maybe -GportOffset=1
I've added a -G flag... so -Gfoo=bar is the same as -
Dorg.apache.geronimo.foo=bar. We can sort out all of the nice short-
hand flags over time... ;-) But keep the ideas coming for sure...
cause I'm not sure how folks actually use this stuff ;-)
For some reason I want to be able to type commands into the console
where I'm looking at the server console output :-) This might end
up being confusing or unpleasant.... but maybe an escape character
could switch to a command mode from "viewing the console output"
mode. Or maybe another way to think of this is to switch back and
forth between the server being in the background.
Yup, right now... I think... you can 'start-server --background' and
it will wait for the server to boot, then return you to a shell and
server output will still be put on console, unless you used 'start-
server --logfile /foo/bar' or something. But I eventually want to
get this syntax working for the same thing:
start-server &
But that requires more parser hacking... so, its a feature planned
on, but pending someone to help me with the grammar and ast mucko ;-)
I'm looking forward to this developing more features :-)
Yay! I'm starting to become more interested in making GShell rule
the world again too ;-)
Cheers,
--jason
