[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-3188) cqlsh 2.0

["paul cannon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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paul cannon commented on CASSANDRA-3188:
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For the sake of the potential set of features, I'd lean heavily toward Python on this one: much more easily integrated with readline (when available) and curses-type capabilities in general, plus more flexible/powerful in parsing input, formatting output, and responding to error situations.

Would it address the concerns of CASSANDRA-3010 if we built the Windows releases with py2exe or something like it? You'd just get a clicky or command-line executable, no manual Python or Thrift installing to worry about.

..On the other hand, cassandra-cli uses JMX for a few of its cluster-inspection duties; are those things that might be important in cqlsh 2.0? Guess I should find out what they are.

> cqlsh 2.0
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3188
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3188
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: paul cannon
>             Fix For: 1.0.1
>
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> I'd like to see some improvements to cqlsh to bring it to feature parity w/ the old cli:
> - describe [<KS> | <CF> | cluster | schema]
> - assume
> - connect / don't crap out w/ stacktrace if C* isn't currently running on localhost
> - help
> It may be easier to do this by forking the cli and replacing its one-off api with CQL, or it may be easier to add these features to cqlsh.
> Either is fine, but if it's a close call my inclination would be to build it in Java for the reasoning over on CASSANDRA-3010.

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