Thanks for the feedback. Based on it would do following changes

1. Move the src folder from core/admin to tools/admin/scala
2. Rename the binary output to wskadmin-next

Chetan Mehrotra


On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1
>
> Keep it in core some where under tools/admin/ maybe tools/admin/next/
> Name it something transient like Rodric said wskadmin-next
>
> wskadmin can call/exec out to wskadmin-next for new features as transition
> approach as next phase.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:49 PM Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To echo Matt:
>>
>> * I strongly advocate keeping the code in tools/admin, or core/tools as the
>> appropriate location. This is not intended for end users but for system
>> administrators and should have a tight coupling with the core system.
>>
>> * I would give the tool a transient name for now (wsk-admin, wskadmin-cli I
>> do not feel strongly), and once all the functionality is subsumed, rename
>> it to wskadmin.
>>
>> Note that the reason for the Scala implementation (in lieu of the Python
>> implementation for wskadmin which is otherwise perfectly fine) is to reuse
>> the code assets already developed the common package. These assets are used
>> in the core components (controller, invoker).
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Matt Rutkowski <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Chetan,
>> >
>> > Took a look at your rather complete PR...
>> >
>> > My first thought was that we were trying to align all our client (CLI,
>> > etc.) tooling around GoLang as it is, in theory, easier for developers to
>> > contribute to and in addition had fewer Java dependencies/legal
>> > complications for binary distribution.
>> >
>> > In terms of where it should "live" either follow the paradigm of wsk CLI
>> > (i.e., incubator-openwhisk-admin-cli or some similar name) or include it
>> > under a logical directory structure under main openwhisk repo.
>> >
>> > As it is Scala, and its function is tightly coupled to main OW (server),
>> > IMO including it in main OW seems like the better choice at the moment.
>> >
>> > -Matt
>> >
>> > On 2018/06/04 06:39:59, Chetan Mehrotra <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Following up on this thread ...
>> > >
>> > > There is now work in progress PR #3722 [1] which implements the
>> > > proposed tooling in Scala. Currently it supports some of the `user`
>> > > commands like `create`, `delete` etc.
>> > >
>> > > There are few open questions also like
>> > >
>> > > 1. What should be the name of cli. Currently its named as wskadmin-cli
>> > >
>> > > 2. Where should the code live. Currently its in core/admin
>> > >
>> > > Please have a look and share feedback related to the approach taken
>> > > i.e. whether its fine to pursue this as done or there are some
>> > > concerns.
>> > >
>> > > Chetan Mehrotra
>> > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/3722
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Chetan Mehrotra
>> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > >> (wskadmin) could become more heavy weight
>> > > >
>> > > > Yes thats a concern and Python dev is more light weight. I would
>> still
>> > > > prefer Python for ad hoc tooling required for one off tasks. But
>> > > > anything which needs to be stable and supported properly for general
>> > > > use it would be better to go for proposed approach.
>> > > >
>> > > >> Are you considering the totality if wskadmin or a partitioning and
>> > only replacing some of partitions?
>> > > >
>> > > > For now the focus is on DB specific task i.e. user,limits,db. For
>> > > > syslog I am not sure as I think its more dev tooling and can only
>> work
>> > > > for local setup. Other command in wskadmin on the other admin can be
>> > > > used for production setups if required.
>> > > > Chetan Mehrotra
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > >> My initial reaction is that it (wskadmin) could become more heavy
>> > weight (small changes becomes longer edit, compile iterations) - case in
>> > point the wsk cli in Python vs Go... but weighed against the benefits
>> > Chetan outlined with potential for a lot of shared code with the backend
>> > cannot be discounted.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> I’m not familiar with oak-run and will take a look to educate
>> myself.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Are you considering the totality if wskadmin or a partitioning and
>> > only replacing some of partitions? (I understood the former, just making
>> > sure.)
>> > > >>
>> > > >> -r
>> > > >>
>> > > >>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 2:05 AM, Chetan Mehrotra <
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Hi Team,
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Currently for OpenWhisk admin operation we have tooling implemented
>> > in
>> > > >>> couple of python scripts like wskadmin, tools/db/* etc. These
>> script
>> > > >>> currently talk directly to CouchDB to perform required actions.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Sometime back I discussed the option to support other databases [1]
>> > > >>> and it was suggested to have wskadmin support various db backends.
>> > > >>> However looking into other scripts I found some of the tool/db
>> would
>> > > >>> also be useful in context of other backends also.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> To simplify this aspect going forward it may be better to implement
>> > > >>> the important tooling in Scala itself as a separate sub module in
>> > core
>> > > >>> repo. This module would produce a 'fat runnable jar' which would be
>> > > >>> including all required dependency and can be used as a standalone
>> cli
>> > > >>> tool.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> We used similar approach in Apache Jackrabbit Oak [2] where we
>> > produce
>> > > >>> this single jar which consolidates all the admin tooling. This has
>> > > >>> over the years became primary admin tooling for us.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Such an approach would have following benefits
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> 1. Implemented in Scala and thus able to leverage existing
>> > > >>> abstractions like ArtifactStore
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> 2. For some of the bulk db operations it would be possible to
>> > leverage
>> > > >>> Akka Streams to implement simpler multi threaded flows.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> 3. Easy to implement tests for the tooling part
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> 4. User management operations can be done via existing
>> ArtifactStore
>> > > >>> feature set. So one implementation can work against multiple stores
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> 5. No other runtime dependency i.e. specific Python version or
>> Python
>> > > >>> module need to be deployed. Just have JDK 1.8 and use the jar in
>> > > >>> standalone manner. No need to even check out whole OpenWhisk repo
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Key requirement for  such a tooling would be to be compatible with
>> > > >>> existing CLI argument format.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> If such an approach makes sense I can work on PR to give it a try!
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Chetan Mehrotra
>> > > >>> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/921a0a6350a7ec3a2dc7756
>> > 4612de59104995622f8417583291f20bc@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E
>> > > >>> [2] https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak/tree/trunk/oak-run
>> > >
>> >
>>

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