[aerogear-dev] Scaffolding questions

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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>> Howdy,
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>> I really like the work on AG Scaffolding!
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>> A few questions:
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>> 1) Is this available on an 'official' page ?
>> https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/5222680
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> Not yet, I think we must find a place for it on aerogear.org, suggestions
> alre welcome !
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>> 2) The generated JS controllers are Angular 'controllers' that use
>> AeroGear for HTTP communication ?
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> Amgular's controllers uses the Aerogear generated DataService JS file
> (which contains/defines  the pipes/datastore)
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so, basically yes :)



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>> 3) The generated Java/REST Endpoints are vanilla JAX-RS endpoints, but
>> the AG Controller (Routes) does the actual
>> HTTP routing, not the JAX-RS impl. right ?
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> Right, the "ag controller" scaffolding branch scaffolds a Controller Route
> and "by pass" the JAX-RS endpoints generated by the REST forge plugin.
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... by leveraging the JAX-RS Response class, for instance ?



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>> So... if 3) the above is right....
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>> 3a)  is it basically a dispatch ?
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> It's AG Controller magic, just drop the jar and defines a route, any
> matches will use the Route defined in the controller.
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ok - you anwsered above. Under the hood, it does a by-pass


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>> 3b) what is the benefit of using the Controler/Routes in this example.
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> * Show the basic use of the Controller / Promote our own stuff
> * IMO Controller has a fluent API which make it really a breeze to define
> REST endpoints,
> * When Security scaffold will be released (soon ! soon!) ,it will be easy
> to integrate into the Routes and again show the power of the controller.
> * In the future, show how we can easily connect to other services (Dan's
> Camel samples)
>

+1 all valid point


Yes, looks good !


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>> Thanks
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> Thanks for the feedback
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