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On 4/14/10 1:58 PM, Jason Lee wrote:
> I've been working with the REST API, trying to see what needs to be
> done to port the Admin Console from AMX to REST, and I've hit a snag.
> The REST API seems to...wrap? delegate to? the CLI command classes,
> and pull attribute information from their parameters. These
> parameters are all lower case. AMX, however, as a layer on top of
> JMX, returns the JMS properties in mixed case, which is what the
> console uses (in practical terms, we deal with the data as a Map). I
> know this was covered a long time ago, but why are we using the
> command classes and not the ConfigBeans directly?
>
> There are likely more, but here are the solutions for the Console's
> problems as I see it:
>
> * The REST API is altered to use the ConfigBeans directly. This
> solves the case issue, but may break any existing clients (are there
> any)? This is a bit distasteful as it's a fairly significant change
> to solve the problem of one client. On the flip side, though, I do
> prefer the mixed case when it comes to reading the output manually,
> and it might also make it easier to generated "pretty" wrappers should
> someone be so inclined (e.g., validateatmostonceperiod vs
> ValidateAtMostOncePeriod could get getValidateatmostonceperiod vs
> getValidateAtMostOncePeriod).
>
> * Another solution, of course, is to change the admin console, but
> that will be a lot of tedious, error-prone work. We'd love to be able
> to reimplement our Handlers and let the pages stand as they are.
> That, of course, may not be possible, but that's what we'd like to do. :)
>
> * Ken and I briefly batted around some sort of wrapper class, such as
> a case-insensitive Map implementation. This looked pretty thorny to
> get right off the cuff. I don't think we've written it off just yet,
> but it's lower on my list, at least.
>
> Any other thoughts or suggestions? Am I missing something obvious?
> Can anyone shed some light on why the REST API behaves as it does (or
> correct my understanding of it)?
>
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Jason Lee
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GlassFish Administration Console
Oracle Corporation
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