Github user ottobackwards commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/873
I think if you are writing or testing commands in the repl this would be
useful.
If it were moved from stellar to common it could be integrated with the
topologies.
The reason I submitted it to commons was I thought it might be, but we
don't have a 'common util' module, long run it should not be in stellar either---
