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Mirror of Apache NiFi
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`list-XYZ` commands concise vs verbose output #28

Closed aperepel closed 6 years ago

aperepel commented 6 years ago

Related to #20

I think I have an idea to make things work for automation and great UX. Switch those list-buckets, etc commands to a concise output by default. E.g. print only the name and uuid:

Bucket A : uuid1
Bucket B : uuid2

This will help the interactive shell user quickly copy/paste and navigate.

Then, use the --verbose option to print the full json that is used now, with extra metadata, etc. Might roll it into a generic --json or similar option instead.

bbende commented 6 years ago

Good idea. I'm thinking of adding an --outputType with possible values of simple and raw, or maybe simple and json. If not specified then default value can be simple. This way we can use --verbose for other things related to errors or logging