[ZOOKEEPER-386] improve java cli shell

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: java client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: add readline support via jline to the java client shell.
• Assignee: Henry Robinson
• Reporter: Patrick D. Hunt
• Created: 27/Apr/09 22:43
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 20:24
• Resolved: 07/May/09 22:35

Description

copied from the following comments by Vegard
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-364?focusedCommentId=12696002&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12696002
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Possible improvements:

Default host list to localhost:2181 when not given.

Don't print a ton of debug, it looks like both cli_mt and zkCli.sh does this. Make a simple ls that lists subnodes one line at a time and a simple cat that lists only the node content, simple put etc.

Shell with gnu readline capabilities and tab completion on node names would be a big improvement of usability during testing and debugging.

Issue Links

• relates to: ZOOKEEPER-388 Add readline support to the c shell