[aerogear-dev] Push Admin UI - Updating

[Kris Borchers]

On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
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> A user creates an "Application" then adds a new "iOS Variant" to it.
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> they decide they need to rename this Variant since they didn't name it very well.
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> There is currently no way of renaming/ updating the description of this variant without re-sending the Certificate/pass phrase.  this would be the same for Android and Simple Push,  just substitute google key and channels
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> yes - but should be easy to change :-)
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> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unified-push-server/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/connectivity/rest/registry/applications/AndroidVariantEndpoint.java#L134-L138
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> in the "update", we just need to onbly update/replace those things that are NOT null. Of course, perhaps we need to rethink the "update validation" too:
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> Yes that could work even if I must admit I'm not a big fan of updating based on a null check ... Imagine someone wants to delete the description by setting it to null , that won't be possible ;)
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> well, yeah - that (the desc) is optional - I was more interested in the required fields:
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> * cert/passphrase (or googlekey/networkURL on other variants)
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I'm not sure how I feel about this partial update. I'm not a big fan of saying "It's a required field but leave it null if you don't want it to change." Feels wrong.

If we are to do partial updates like this though, I would say it should probably use http PATCH instead of PUT, right?
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> (Well not sure it is a valid use case but you see my point) and as you said we must then rethink user validation.
> Other option is to split the update into more smaller specific updates methods ... but not sure about this also.
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> Also,  once we have a variant created,  we have a variant ID,  we should be able to use that ID( plus type? ) to do updates instead of having to pass the applicaitonID and variantID( same would go for a delete i guess ).
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> Not really sure the best way to handle this.
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> the "variantID" is not a PK, but it's unique - so a new finder is what you need. 
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> Should a user be able to update a certificate/key/channel once it has been created.
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> yes, they should be able to replace an outdated (or revoked) certificate, API etc.
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>  How would this affect any installations it might have?
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> Not at all.  so if (speaking Androind) ... a new "project" is used - there is a new SenderID - that's more impact, since the actual mobile app needs to be updated, but again that's not really a concern for the push server
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> thoughts?
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> -Luke
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