I vote for Yes, seems to me that when you request interactive mode,
you should be prompted for all the required options you did not
specify on the command line.
For instance in your example below, i wonder why --connectionpoolid
is "more" required than admin user name/password for entering
interactive mode...
Jerome
On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Jane Young-Lau wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to solicit your opinion on how CLI (asadmin) prompts for
> options.
>
> Currently, if --interactive is true, asadmin would prompt for the
> user and password. It does not prompt for the required options.
>
> For example, let's take create-jdbc-resource command:
> >asadmin create-jdbc-resource --interactive jdbc_resource
> CLI014 connectionpoolid is a required option.
>
> Though --interactive is true, the command fails since it requires
> that you enter --connectionpoolid option on the command line. If
> you provide the --connectionpoolid option, the command will prompt
> the user for the user and password:
> >asadmin create-jdbc-resource --interactive --connectionpoolid
> testPool jdbc_resource
> Please enter the admin user name>admin
> Please enter the admin password>
> Command create-jdbc-resource executed successfully.
>
> The user and password options are prompted since I have not login'd
> to the domain using "asadmin login" command.
>
> Would you like to see that asadmin commands also prompt for the
> required options as well as the user/password options? Would this
> be a feature well received? Keep in mind that asadmin is mainly
> use for scripting.
>
> I'd like to know the following:
> YES - adding prompting of required options benefits the usability
> of asadmin
> NO - stay status quo. prompting of user/password is good enough
> Other suggestions?
>
> Let me know your opinion.
>
> Thank you,
> Jane
>
>