JBoss-CLI "deploy -l" always returns exit code 1 even when it succeeds

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 6.x
  • 7.x

Issue

CLI command deploy -l results always returns 1 even if it succeeded.

For example, it can be seen by following steps:

$ /JBOSS_HOME/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="deploy -l"
NAME             RUNTIME-NAME     ENABLED STATUS
testapp.war testapp.war true    OK
$ echo $?
1

Resolution

This issue is reported in the following buzgilla and JIRAs:

• EAP 6.4.x: This content is not included.BZ#1224170 which was fixed in EAP 6.4.15 or later
• EAP 7.0.z: Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.JBEAP-9135 which will be fixed in EAP 7.0.6 or later
• EAP 7.1.0: Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.JBEAP-9134
• Upstream (WildFly): Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.WFCORE-2330

Please ignore the exit code for the command deploy -l until the above issue is fixed.

Root Cause

The result string for command line is correct, but only failed to return exit code correctly.

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