[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10264) Wizard-ify the project examples

[Snjezana Peco (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10264?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12663905#comment-12663905 ] 

Snjezana Peco commented on JBIDE-10264:
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Will I create a wizard in the following way:

- Page 1
The Project Example wizard - project example choice (1) - JBoss Central doesn't need this page because project examples are shown in the Project Examples section of the JBoss Central editor
JBoss Central - details about "missing requirements" (2)
- Page 2
The Project Example wizard - details about "missing requirements" (2)
JBoss Central - nothing
- Page 3, 4, ...
project examples contributions (currently, only mavenArchetype would have those pages)
- the last page
"open quickfix dialog" (4) - this page wouldn't be accessible until the user downloads/builds a project example

"open the readme.*" (5) can't be added to the wizard because it is opened in a separate view/editor

"wait for download (can be put in background)" (3) - would be executed when the user clicks Finish

> Any issue concerning "having UI block while downloading" can be solved by providing a "go to background" for the wizard 
> and once it has finished donwloading showing a dialog reporting download 
> have completed and we are now going to import + open readme.whatever (unless user cancles) is worthwhile to "guide" the user.

Does this mean we have to add the "go to background" checkbox to the first page of the wizard. If the user checks it, the wizard would be closed when he clicks the Finish button and dialogs will be being opened as before?

Will I contribute wizard pages necessary for the mavenArchetype project example?


                
> Wizard-ify the project examples
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-10264
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10264
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: project-examples
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.0.M4
>            Reporter: Fred Bricon
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 3.3.0.Beta1
>
>
> In the wake of JBIDE-9776 and JBIDE-10140, it turns out that, in order for us to contribute 5 new wizards to the "New " menu under the Jboss perspective and in the "New project" section of JBoss central, "project examples" based projects should be created via a Wizard implementation from the get go. 
> Current project examples workflow involves :
> - displaying a form dialog : to display missing runtimes and let the user install/download the required runtimes
> - launching a workspace job, which in turn : 
>   * downloads the example
>   * does the actual project import (launches a wizard for maven archetypes)
>   * resolve quickfixes
> Ideally, all these steps would be part of a single wizard, spanning one to N pages (depending on the complexity/requirements of the examples). Everything contributed by the form dialog would be replaced by a wizard page, which would bring consistency to the UI.
> In other words, that means the project example dialog needs to be refactored into a Wizard, providing an API so that client plugins can contribute wizard pages. 
> I'm aware this is not a simple task to refactor the existing workflow to such an infrastructure but ultimately, that would allow us to easily contribute new project wizards to the IDE in a standard way.
> Current target is 3.3.0.Beta1. Snjeza, WDYT?

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