[Hawkular-dev] cmdgw forwarding messages from bus to UI

[Lucas Ponce]

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> From: "Jiri Kremser" <jkremser at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussions around Hawkular development" <hawkular-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3:42:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hawkular-dev] cmdgw forwarding messages from bus to UI
> 
> | on the contrary alerts are sent
> | inmediately via the actions architecture via configured transport
> 
> notifications are quite ok, but notifications on the dashboard in web UI are
> quite common today (take social networks for instance)
> Lucas, do you also send the notification on the bus if the alert is
> triggered?
> 

There are notifications showed in the UI today, but using the general polling mechanism used for communication UI vs REST API.

Bus is used internally as a mechanism of communication between the alerts engine and its plugins architecture.

> 
> | In a first thought, having a real full duplex communication is attractive.
> 
> well, we have the full duplex communication right now. Web Sockets are by
> design full-duplex comm layer. What I was suggesting was to extend the set
> of use-cases we are using it for, currently (afaik) it's only invoking
> commands.
>

I guess this could be an interesting topic for a watercooler meeting.

It would be interesting how is it designed.

So, if at some point we need to apply a similar design, we can just reuse/adapt it.
 
Thanks,
Lucas