[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (ZOOKEEPER-386) improve c and java cli shells

["Henry Robinson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Henry Robinson edited comment on ZOOKEEPER-386 at 4/30/09 4:00 PM:
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This patch adds readline support to ZooKeeperMain, plus a bunch of other stuff: auto-completion of commands and znodes, scrollable history, redo any of the last 10 commands, a prompt that displays the command count, optional surpression of watch notifications and defaults to localhost:2181 if no -server flag is given on the command line.

Dropped / failed connections still fail fairly ugly, might be an idea to add a 'connect' command and catch the exceptions. 

This depends on JLine 0.9.94 (available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64033&package_id=61095&release_id=578593), and the patch includes an update to the buildfile to look for the jar in src/java/lib.

I have another version without readline support that does most of the above stuff without scrollable history or tab auto-completion - it's not as nice to use as the readline enabled version.

      was (Author: henryr):
    This patch adds readline support to ZooKeeperMain, plus a bunch of other stuff: auto-completion of commands and znodes, scrollable history, redo any of the last 10 commands, a prompt that displays the command count, optional surpression of watch notifications and defaults to localhost:2181 if no -server flag is given on the command line.

Dropped / failed connections still fail fairly ugly, might be an idea to add a 'connect' command and catch the exceptions. 
  
> improve c and java cli shells
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-386
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-386
>             Project: Zookeeper
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: c client, java client
>            Reporter: Patrick Hunt
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.2.0
>
>         Attachments: patch.txt
>
>
> copied from the following comments by Vegard
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-364?focusedCommentId=12696002&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12696002
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> Possible improvements:
> Default host list to localhost:2181 when not given.
> Don't print a ton of debug, it looks like both cli_mt and zkCli.sh does this. Make a simple ls that lists subnodes one line at a time and a simple cat that lists only the node content, simple put etc.
> Shell with gnu readline capabilities and tab completion on node names would be a big improvement of usability during testing and debugging. 

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