[QPID-3851] Uniform options for cli tools

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14
• Fix Version/s: 0.15
• Component/s: C++ Tools
• Assignee: Ted Ross
• Reporter: Ted Ross
• Created: 16/Feb/12 15:53
• Updated: 29/Jul/13 19:05
• Resolved: 12/Sep/12 21:35

Description

The CLI tools in qpid/tools/src/py have inconsistent and conflicting options. For example, the broker URL is specified differently in different tools:

• qpid-config -a <url>
• qpid-stat <url>

qpid-route specifies two broker urls (source and destination) and makes its connection to one or the other depending on the --src-local switch.

The proposal is to adopt a set of common options used for all of the tools:

-h --help Help text
-b --broker Broker URL
-t --timeout Time to wait for broker connection
--sasl-mechanism Mechanism to authenticate with the broker