[KARAF-26] have restart clean command/API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 10/Jul/09 14:38
• Updated: 07/Jul/11 09:59
• Resolved: 02/Sep/10 09:06

Description

in development its very common to want to trash the data directory, stop karaf then start again. Its kinda painful.

it'd be good to do this in a single command.

restart:clean

which would move the ./data directory somewhere (into an old directory, maybe numbered so you've a history of logs etc) and then doing a System.exit(something) such that the shell script knows its a restart, where the shell script could then restart the JVM again.

I can imagine this being useful in distributed testing/production uses where you want to basically restart a server from scratch so it might fetch new bundles on startup etc (without worrying about old stuff being stuck in the JVM).

I guess restarting is one thing - and restarting clean (with the data directory going) is a secondary optional extra

Issue Links

• relates to: KARAF-185 Have a 'clean' parameter on the main shell script to clean the working folder