[aerogear-dev] Improving customization abilities of OpenShift cartridge

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to know your opinion on following changes to UnifiedPush
> Server. They are both focused on improving customization process for the
> cartridge.
>
> Just in short, current update process now:
> 1/ Clone official git repository of cartridge
> 2/ Extract wars and do the modifications or build ones
> 3/ Package wars
> 4/ Push cartridge to your own repository
> 5/ Create cartridge from your own repository
>
> Whereas, I'm proposing:
> 1/ Create cartridge from official repository
> 2/ Clone git repository for gear created by Openshift (by default if rhc
> is used)
> 3/ Modify some files there we expose for user modification
> 4/ Push back to make changes live
>
> What particular configuration elements I'm interested to have
> externalized?
>
> 1/ Ability to load keycloak.json from external location
>
> => This allows user to create cartridge and modify it prior the first
> access. This allows users to configure it to be consumable by other
> services automatically, e.g. they can add developer users, roles, etc.
>

hrm, in theory, yeah, that could be possible. Perhaps Stian or abstractj
have an idea here



>
> 2/ Externalize GCM/APNs locations
>
> => Now, URLs are hardcoded in GCM/APNs JARs.


yes, they are considered stable APIs :)

We are not going to 'externalize' these URLs


> If they would be loaded
> from external location (defaults can still be hardcoded), this allows
> user to easily check business logic that queries data in UPS and not
> sending any messages. Also allows to put proxy in between UPS and
> APNs/GCMs.
>
> Both these will significantly reduce QE overhead. However, I believe
> they are valuable for other as well.
>
> Feedback and tomatoes (I prefer plum ones) are welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karel
>
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