[aerogear-dev] Scaffolding questions

[Kris Borchers]

On Apr 2, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

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> 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:
> 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)
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> +1 all valid point

Also, it makes it easy to paginate the endpoints, right? Eventually this will be part of scaffolding but it was a couple of simple changes for me to add pagination to the scaffolded code.
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> Yes, looks good !
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> Thanks
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> Thanks for the feedback 
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