[teiid-designer-dev] VDB configuration

[John Doyle]

Perhaps I'm missing some complications.  Are we talking about syncing the file on disk with the various views, or the file on disk with the deployed VDB?  

And I do mean for the user to edit, otherwise, like Dan, I see no point. The plugin.xml (MANIFEST.MF, build.properties) is the model I have in mind.

As far as the typical user of Designer goes, I'm actually trying to build a bridge between the 'historical' user of Designer, for whom we want to maintain our high level of usability and the ability to 'just click the button', and what I perceive as the typical JBoss user, who edits configuration files by hand and doesn't like that things they don't understand happen when they 'just click the button.  It will certainly be more work for us to provide both of these paradigms, maybe even double the work, and I'm not arguing that we do it today, but I think it's the right direction.

~jd
  
----- "Daniel Florian" <dflorian at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm not crazy about it. I'm not sure if the typical user of Designer
> cares about that file or even knows one exists inside a VDB. But you
> can correct me on that one. It seems silly to have that tab if you
> can't edit it. And if you do allow editing, as stated below, it
> complicates the editor quite a bit. Not only the framework to sync
> editors would be needed, but editor validation and a way for the user
> to overwrite with an auto-generated file may also be needed. I'm just
> not sure the cost/benefit is worth it right now.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ramesh Reddy" <rareddy at redhat.com>
> To: "John Doyle" <jdoyle at redhat.com>
> Cc: "teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:41:28 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [teiid-designer-dev] VDB configuration
> 
> I like it. The only issue is whether you want to let the users edit
> it
> or not. If you do, then syncing is the issue.
> 
> Ramesh..
> 
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 13:21 -0400, John Doyle wrote:
> > I've been working on the VDB UI to stub out the changes for Teiid 7
> and wanted to float an idea.  How about adding an additional tab to
> the VDB editor view that showed the configuration.def file in a raw
> XML view?  This seems like a pretty standard eclipse paradigm and I
> think plays into the way the typical JBoss user expects to interaction
> with their tools.
> > 
> > ~jd 
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