Re: [Hawkular-dev] Generic Hawkular-UI in MiQ
On 25 May 2017, at 2:40, mike thompson wrote:
From a MiQ UI perspective, we should be able to ‘map’ multiple
disparate structures into a canonical MiQ model that gets rendered in
the UI. The MiQ UI screens are just representing models so as long as
we just maintain consistent mappings into the canonical fields we
should be fine. Of course, we will probably have to add new generic
fields as new attributes arise, but that is expected.
I think what I forgot to mention is that in the .haml when
you have
properties:
- foo
- bar
- baz
it is also possible to compute that list via a method
(under the hood, those lists are method calls anyway)
This provides a more metadata style approach. It is a change of
direction, but we are changing things anyway with new technology
decisions.
The idea is to quickly get out support for new supported
entities (e.g. Infinispan) by having the structure on the metadata.
This also allows for the owners of the entities (Ispn-team) to
provide the knowledge about the structure in the (agent)
metadata without the need to also create MiQ code.
This does not prevent us from doing more specific screens
later on for those entities. It is really meant to get initial
support for those in more quickly.