Trigger follow-up actions to other commands
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Key: FORGE-2506
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-2506
Project: Forge
Issue Type: Feature Request
Components: UI - API
Reporter: Sanne Grinovero
Assignee: George Gastaldi
Fix For: 3.0.0.Alpha1
It would be great to have a way to suggest a "follow-up" action after a certain
command was run.
Example:
I run the JPA setup command to enable JPA, and I'm using a graphical UI such as the
Eclipse wizard.
After selecting Hibernate as JPA provider and having picked the versions, the next page
should ask "do you want to add Hibernate Search as well?" and show the relevant
input questions from the Hibernate Search Forge plugin.
The complexity is that the Hibernate Search Forge plugin should ideally be maintained as
a separate plugin from the JPA one.
Also when running the "Hibernate Search: Setup" command the cancel button
should only avoid adding Search, but when run as triggered by the JPA command it should
allow to skip the step without cancelling all of the JPA setup operations.
We have many more extension points which would benefit from such a model.
The important aspect is that we should _present_ the option - at least to GUI users -
rather than expecting them to know what to type next: the meta goal is to make sure that
projects which qualify for something (i.e. you're using Hibernate) might not know of
our other extension points and we need to encourage people to try them out.