[STREAMS-411] ability (and instructions on how) to run providers directly from console

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4
• Assignee: Steve Blackmon
• Reporter: Steve Blackmon
• Created: 30/Sep/16 01:19
• Updated: 10/Nov/16 19:18
• Resolved: 24/Oct/16 03:49

Description

All of the providers currently require attachment to a run-time to use.

If providers could be configured and executed directly from the console, they would become more valuable for casual use cases where users just want to easily grab documents without writing or deploying custom code.

This would probably take the form of adding a main method and perhaps a Runnable trait to each provider, that when launched resolves the appropriate typesafe config, starts up the provider, and pulls documents out of the outbound queue and writes them to STDOUT as long as the streams is running.

Instructions how to do this should also be added to the javadocs of the providers and/or the markdowns of each module.