Bug 535466 (RHQ-2159)

The purpose of this task is to allow the cli users to :
i) view their existing modifiable/unmodifiable settings
ii) edit the existing modifiable settings.

Examples of needed settings:
i) maximum width for any one column in mutiple column field displays  R/W
ii) PageControl size values  R/W.  integer values and -1 for unlimited
iii) logging file destination   R/W.  see RHQ-2157 for more details.
iv) Client version information:  R 
v) etc ... any other properties that we find useful....

Some of this may be unnecessary given the settings in cli config.  Or, possibly some of this should be set globally in cl-env.bat/sh.

This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-2159

mass move off of the qa rhq_triage queue, these are dev subtasks

Jay and Simeon, can you all elaborate on this issue?

This was a call for an organized way of setting/modifying default PageControl and column view width properties when sending requests and viewing responses via CLI. 

Example 1) A user who is going to query and view the first 50 entries of some resource.  It used to be that the PageControl was whatever it had been defaulted to in the CLI impl and you'd get the first 200 entries.  Perhaps you want to know the top fifty down resources sorted by some criteria.  This was proposed before all the *Criteria classes and I don't know if this use case was addressed.

Example 2) A user has successfully figured out the script commands to get the resources that they're interested in, but the results displayed to the screen will be chopped to fit into their current console window.  This is annoying if you want to pipe the cli results out to some file for consumption by other tool or to be fully human readable outside of the context of a console window.  This was also proposed before the final instantiation of CLI and there may be a more updated way of achieving this result.

We should also include jsanda on this thread as he's still actively working on the CLI now.

i) maximum width for any one column in mutiple column field displays  R/W

don't think this is possible today.  this *should* only affect the interactive console for multi-column display...but i wonder if it affects the export process too.

ii) PageControl size values  R/W.  integer values and -1 for unlimited

criteria can accomplish this.

iii) logging file destination   R/W.  see RHQ-2157 for more details.

exporter does this.

iv) Client version information:  R 

i believe this is printed upon startup, but is a minor feature anyway.

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i think it's safe to close this.

Closing per triage