Jason Dillon has been working on GShell which is a java command line
shell into which you can easily add java (or groovy) commands. He's
been working on it for use with Geronimo but I was about to mention
it here since I thought it would be useful for apacheds as well.
Geronimo is going to use it to replace platform specific startup
scripts (in non-interactive mode) but this is just a tiny part of
what it can do.
Right now the code is in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/
sandbox/gshell/trunk
but I think jason is going to move it to somewhere more permanent soon.
So I'd suggest using gshell as the shell framework and adding
apacheds specific commands.
thanks
david jencks
On Aug 29, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote:
A while back I posted some Confluence pages about writing a command
line yet interactive
LDAP client called LDAP shell. I never really got any comments
about it. I just thought
it might be worth while putting out the idea again on this email
channel.
The concept is simple and one that everyone on the command line is
pretty much used to.
A shell. Users log into an LDAP server and have a command prompt
where they can:
o CD into any ldap context using relative or absolute
distinguished names
o LS within a server entry to list it's children if any (use -R to
change scope :))
o CAT to print the contents of an entry to the console
o LESS to pan through contents
o VI, ED to edit the contents and save
o PUSHD to push a DN onto the stack
o POPD to pop a DN off of the stack and CD into it
o MV to modifyDn on an entry
o CP to copy an entry
Yep all the shell built-ins you're used to in bourne or bourne
again shells should be there. The
only difference in the commands are that they apply to a different
naming system than the UNIX
file system path syntax.
The idea here is to enable LDAP scripting for those who already
know how to script in shells.
Furthermore these deterministic scripts can be transformed into
code that can be pushed into
the server as stored procedures.
Also Directory Studio can use this as an LDAP console. You don't
need to just be in a shell
to utilize this neat little client. Studio's browser can select
nodes in the tree to represent
the path of working directory ($PWD). As the user navigates
through the LDAP shell Studio's
browser can give them cues on their position and where they can go.
Drag and drop can be
used to move nodes in the browser into the shell which will list
the DN of the node dropped in.
Selected a node in the browser can automatically CD users into that
entry.
Is this a crazy idea? Thoughts?
Alex
