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Re: Should hidden commands be exposed in error messages?

From: Joe Di Pol <joe.dipol_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:42:53 -0700

I would consider this a bug. It probably should be telling
the user to run delete-local-instance on the host.

Can you file a bug?

Thanks,

Joe


Paul M Davies (Oracle) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried unsuccessfully to delete an instance (I think I encountered
> Issue 12677
> <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12677>) and got
> this message:
>
> remote failure: Command asadmin _delete-instance-filesystem on
> localhost returned a non-zero status
> Succesfully removed instance pmdinst1 from the DAS configuration,
> but failed to remove the instance files. Please run:
>
> asadmin _delete-instance-filesystem pmdinst1
>
> on localhost to complete the transaction.
>
> Command delete-instance failed.
>
> I assume from the underscore at the start of its name that
> _delete-instance-filesystem is a hidden command, and so is not
> documented. Therefore, I'm wondering if the error message should tell
> users to run this command to correct an error. If it should, perhaps
> the command itself should not be hidden.
>
> What do people think?
>
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