Spring Shell

Overview
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Users of the Spring Shell project can easily build a full featured shell ( aka command line) application by depending on the Spring Shell jars and adding their own commands (which come as methods on spring beans). Creating a command line application can be useful e.g. to interact with your project’s REST API, or to work with local file content.

Features

Spring Shell’s features include

A simple, annotation driven, programming model to contribute custom commands
Use of Spring Boot auto-configuration functionality as the basis for a command plugin strategy
Tab completion, colorization, and script execution
Customization of command prompt, shell history file name, handling of results and errors
Dynamic enablement of commands based on domain specific criteria
Integration with the bean validation API
Already built-in commands, such as clear screen, gorgeous help, exit
ASCII art Tables, with formatting, alignment, fancy borders, etc.

Spring Boot Config

Start your Spring Shell application by adding the appropriate dependency:

Maven

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.shell</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-shell-starter</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Gradle

dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.shell:spring-shell-starter:2.0.0.RELEASE'
}

Then to create a simple command that could be invoked as

shell:>translate "hello world!" --from en_US --to fr_FR
bonjour monde!

assuming you’d have access to some kind of translation service that worked with Locales:

package foo;

@ShellComponent
public class TranslationCommands {

    private final TranslationService service;

    @Autowired
    public TranslationCommands(TranslationService service) {
      this.service = service;
    }

    @ShellMethod("Translate text from one language to another.")
    public String translate(
      @ShellOption(mandatory = true) String text,
      @ShellOption(mandatory = true, defaultValue = "en_US") Locale from,
      @ShellOption(mandatory = true) Locate to
    ) {
      // invoke service
      return service.translate(text, from, to);
    }
}

Quickstart Your Project

Bootstrap your application with Spring Initializr.

Documentation

Each Spring project has its own; it explains in great details how you can use project features and what you can achieve with them.

2.0.1.RELEASE CURRENT GA	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.1.0-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.1.0-M5 PRE	Reference Doc.	API Doc.