Here's an idea I prototyped and wanted some feedback. It applies only to an interactive mode.
As a user, I want to cut down on the amount of UUID copy/pasting I need to do when navigating the registry tree and supplying mandatory id params to commands. Let me use a special reference syntax to 'grab that row' which I just listed, supplying just its positional argument.
Here's how a sample session looks like (note the &4 positional reference in the second command):
#> registry list-buckets
# Name Id Description
--- ---------------- ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------
1 API First Bucket 42c47c13-5694-4b77-88c6-ef48d4b9dbc1 (empty)
2 DCH 078cbb53-afa4-437a-ad5a-83665b3459dd (empty)
3 QuickImport 4d18d86e-b204-4bc0-b419-2e1818156849 (empty)
4 Second Bucket 76dbb3e8-a812-4bb2-800a-ba3a4ec3ed72 (empty)
#> registry list-flows -b &2
Using a positional backreference for 'DCH'
# Name Id Description
--- ---------- ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------
1 Dan's flow e690f578-b02a-4cea-b88f-c77cbbfb7286 (empty)
2 SFTP Flow 0992fd2f-614d-4d4d-b8c3-9f7fafe30fc2
#> registry list-flow-versions -f &2
Using a positional backreference for 'SFTP Flow'
Ver Date Author Message
--- -------------------------- --------- ----------------------------------------
1 Sun, Feb 11 2018 12:11 EST anonymous
2 Sun, Feb 11 2018 12:13 EST anonymous Color changes
3 Sun, Feb 11 2018 13:09 EST anonymous Color changes
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Implementation notes
Added a map in the context object which is cleared and populated every time one performs some list-XXX command and maintains the same ordering as the one on-screen. If a user tries to list A, then list B, and backref &A1, the results are non-deterministic, and we are not targeting this robustness level. The only goal is to cut down on the keyboard and mouse fatigue and raise productivity.
Here's an idea I prototyped and wanted some feedback. It applies only to an interactive mode.
As a user, I want to cut down on the amount of UUID copy/pasting I need to do when navigating the registry tree and supplying mandatory id params to commands. Let me use a special reference syntax to 'grab that row' which I just listed, supplying just its positional argument.
Here's how a sample session looks like (note the
&4positional reference in the second command):Implementation notes
Added a map in the context object which is cleared and populated every time one performs some list-XXX command and maintains the same ordering as the one on-screen. If a user tries to list A, then list B, and backref &A1, the results are non-deterministic, and we are not targeting this robustness level. The only goal is to cut down on the keyboard and mouse fatigue and raise productivity.