Should dcm4chee provide a CLI?

[towerhe]

From @simonmd, I got a message that the community need a scripting tool for interacting with the dcm4chee server. For now, most of them use twiddle to achieve it.

Based on implemented api of dcm4chee, We can set up a more specific command-line tool for the dcm4chee server. But I am not sure if it is needed.

[simonmd]

I too would like to hear the community's opinion on this. On the previous forum there have been several threads on how to perform certain tasks for dcm4chee via the command line with twiddle (see: http://forums.dcm4che.org/jiveforums/search.jspa?threadID=&q=twiddle&objID=f6&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=30&rankBy=10001)

It ocurrs to me that perhaps abstracting the basic dcm4chee-jolokia-gem functionality might be useful for people who don't want to deploy a full fledged rails app/engine but rather a simple script.

Any thoughts?

[towerhe]

By following your link, I found that most of users use scripting tools to maintain data saved in the dcm4chee server. I'm not sure in which usecases we should achieve by command line. IMO, this jobs can easily be handled by the web ui, jmx console and so on.