CLI lost support for names as adjectives

[willr3]

The original h5m cli was designed to support entity names as adjectives or nouns.

list <folderName> nodes
list nodes from <folderName>

Why was this support removed when the cli dependency was changed from picocli to aesh?

[stalep]

The restructuring from action-centric (list/add/remove ) to entity-centric (folder/node/notification ) was done for consistency. Every entity group follows the same pattern of subcommands, and tab completion makes the available operations discoverable:

[h5m]$
admin  alias  cd  changes  exit  folder  legacy  ls  node  notification  run  status  unalias  view

[h5m]$ node
add  list  remove  update

[h5m]$ folder
add  chart  export  import  list  purge  recalculate  remove  structure  upload  values

[h5m]$ run
list  show  upload

[h5m]$ view
create  list  remove  show  update

The user learns one structure and it applies everywhere. Tab completion after any entity shows all its operations in one place, rather than having to know which action verbs (list, add, remove) support which entity types.
The cd context eliminates most folder name repetition:

[h5m]$ cd rhivos-perf-comprehensive
Using folder: rhivos-perf-comprehensive
[h5m:rhivos-perf-comprehensive]$ node list
[h5m:rhivos-perf-comprehensive]$ folder values
[h5m:rhivos-perf-comprehensive]$ folder chart "Autobench Single Core" --domain "Start Time"

For operations outside the current folder context, --from and --to provide explicit targeting.
The old action-first approach (list nodes, list folders, add jq, remove folder) scattered operations across action verbs. This made it harder to discover what operations were available for a given entity -- you had to try each action verb to see if it supported the entity you wanted. The smart removal (remove auto-detecting entity type) also had fragile disambiguation logic when folders and nodes shared the same name.

[willr3]

I do not see where your response addresses the issue of names as adjectives. Did you mean to post this to #266 which questions the consistency of the change to the noun->verb cli ? There are assumptions in the response that I do not believe are correct but I believe it best we hold that conversation in the appropriate location.

This issue is with the removal of entity names being treated as qualifier adjectives in the CLI. This issue is applicable to noun->verb just as it is applicable to verb->noun although admittedly verb->noun is a more fluent facsimile for user actions and grammatically correct sentences.

The entity name could be used as an entity identifier even with the change to noun->verb

foo node list
foo nodes list

(I believe aesh can support nodes as a possible alias for node)

This would allow more advanced users to simplify the grammar of an operation while maintaining discoverability for users who type "node" and hit tab for auto completion.
The question in this issue is why was that functionality removed?