What would you like to happen?

The hop-server.bat command has 3 setup modes

• SETUP BY CONFIG FILE: hop-server.bat hop-server-config.xml
• SETUP BY SERVER NAME: hop-server.bat -n HOPSERVER01 --gs
• SETUP BY HOSTNAME AND PORT: hop-server.bat <hostname> <port> <shutdownport> -k -u=<user> -p=<password>

1. Remove the last mode because it's buggy and doesn't allow the command to indicate which protocol to use: HTTP or HTTPS)

2. All config parameters must have a command line option, add the following:

--host
--port
--shutdownport
--ssl
--proxyhost
--proxyport

3. If you are using config file or named server mode, it should be possible to override certain properties on the command line:
   hop-server.bat hop-server-config.xml -gs -u=<user> -p=<password>
hop-server.bat -n HOPSERVER01 -proxyhost=192.0.0.1 -proxyport=8080

4. Add command line options --help and --version

5. Add the command to stop a remote server on a shutdown port requiring authentication.
   hop-server.bat hop-server-config.xml --kill
hop-server.bat -n HOPSERVER01 -k -shutdowport=8082

6. Code cleanup

• Create an org.apache.hop.www.RemoteHopServer class to interact with a Hop server, and thus remove a few of methods from HopServerMeta. HopServerMeta would then become pure metadata.

Issue Priority

Priority: 3

Issue Component

Component: Hop Server