Added rudimentary json_info command

[ghost]

Hi kostya,

This is a simple, probably bad json_info command added to the eye CLI. I wanted to be able to feed eye status to other monitoring systems, and JSON is a great cross-language machine-readable format.

json_info currently simply outputs the response from the eye server as ran through JSON.generate. I'm sure it can be prettified, but I have just started playing with it and wanted to get the ball rolling quickly. As I continue to work on this I may add refined output and specs for this.

What do you think? Do you want to change the command name?

Thanks,

Milan Iliev

[kostya]

Hi, thanks.
I prefer option eye info -j for example to render json. (or maybe by env variable)
Also, require 'json' better doing in method, for faster cli.
Also, if you want to control by http, there is already gem reel-eye in branch reel, which returns jsons.

[hamann]

What's reel-eye? Is it documented?

[kostya]

you can read diff master...reel
reel-eye is the same eye with configurable http server which enabled by:

Eye.config do
  http :enable => true, :host => "127.0.0.1", :port => 12345
end

I am not including in default gem because many additional dependencies.

[ghost]

Kostya,

Thanks for the well-considered response. You are right, of course; my patch
was built as an quick-and-ugly hack and I did not know about reel-eye.

I did figure out the config from the diff. How do you use the API though?

Going to / shows me the home screen with the version OK.

But what URL do I need to hit to see info or issue commands?

It seems I need /api/info, but that just returns a 404. So does /info.

That am I doing wrong?

Thank you so much for eye!

Milan

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 6:47 AM, kostya [email protected] wrote:

you can read diff master...reelhttps://github.com/kostya/eye/compare/master...reel
reel-eye is the same eye with configurable http server which enabled by:

Eye.config do
http :enable => true, :host => "127.0.0.1", :port => 12345end

I am not including in default gem because many additional dependencies.

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[kostya]

i am not using reel-eye in prod, this was a proof of concept.

this is works for me:
curl 'https://localhost:12345/api/info?filter=all'

curl -X PUT 'https://localhost:12345/api/restart?filter=all'

[kostya]

is reel-eye enought? closing this.

[kostya]

from 0.6.rc, i cut reel-eye into gem: https://github.com/kostya/eye-http
reel-eye not going to be supported

[ghost]

Thanks! Your patch worked perfectly, by the way, we've been using reel-eye

On Monday, May 12, 2014, kostya [email protected] wrote:

from 0.6.rc cut reel-eye into gem https://github.com/kostya/eye-http
there is no more reel-eye

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[kostya]

it should be easy to switch to eye-http, because it almost the same as reel-eye.
reel-eye was a hack.