[OFBIZ-10805] OFBiz shell

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: Trunk
• Component/s: framework
• Assignee: Mathieu Lirzin (Inactive)
• Reporter: Mathieu Lirzin (Inactive)
• Created: 12/Jan/19 18:03
• Updated: 07/Dec/19 17:09
• Resolved: 07/Dec/19 17:09

Description

One issue with the current way of writing Groovy tests is that the feedback between writing an instruction and checking its result is slow because one has to rerun the corresponding test case.

Providing a Groovy shell access with a delegator and dispatcher allows developers to interactively execute commands and check their results instantly.

The shell access has been done via Remote Procedure Call (RPC) which was already implemented by the AdminClient and AdminServer classes.

In order to test, you must start the server first:

$ ./gradlew ofbiz

then you can run the following command in another terminal:

$ java -jar build/libs/ofbiz.jar --shell

or this equivalent one which uses the corresponding short option:

$ java -jar build/libs/ofbiz.jar -i

Limitation: It is currently not possible to connect multiple shells at
the same time.