Hi,

I have pushed the r61 [1], which makes it the first commit on the Command Line shell. As Steve suggested, I have also modified the CL tools (and shell) to support both singular and plural instance names using a naive function, that can be replaced with a prefix matching procedure, if necessary.

As for the shell, it currently supports the display objects functionality using the show clause.

The show clause supports three kinds of filters, equality, in_list and a regular expression filter.

Also, r61 adds a basic version shell environment functionality, which can be used to store variables that can be reused in the queries. The feature setting of mailman object names in the environment and using them without explicitly specifying them the queries is yet to be built and will be a part of r62, which I expect to complete by Wednesday (09/07/2014). r62 will also include the create functions for the mailman objects.

Currently, the shell supports only conjunctions in clauses. Queries can contain any number of filters specified using the conjunctions.

A few sample queries that are currently supported by the shell

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set domain domain.org

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show lists where mail_host = $domain

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show lists where mail_host = $domain and foo@bar.com in moderators

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show users where display_name like .*foo

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show domains

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unset domain

I have also updated the docs for the same.

r62 will contain:

1. Automatic filtering of results based on predefined environment variables like domain, list and user

2. Create object queries, a quite straight forward one.

3. Delete object queries

4. Turn on/off the environment variables

Footnotes

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rajeevs1992/mailman.client/mailmancli/revision/...