[aerogear-dev] Improving customization abilities of OpenShift cartridge

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I'd like to know your opinion on following changes to UnifiedPush
>> Server. They are both focused on improving customization process for the
>> cartridge.
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>> 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.
>>
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> hrm, in theory, yeah, that could be possible. Perhaps Stian or abstractj
> have an idea here
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we could have our real in a JSON file, so that it is easy/easier to import
it into an existing KC server, to run UPS against that


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>> 2/ Externalize GCM/APNs locations
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>> => Now, URLs are hardcoded in GCM/APNs JARs.
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> yes, they are considered stable APIs :)
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> We are not going to 'externalize' these URLs
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>> 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.
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>> 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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