[jbosstools-fuse-dev - 8] Re: new transformation wizard

On Mar 19, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Keith Babo <kbabo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:23 PM, John Verhaeg <verhaeg(a)icloud.com <mailto:verhaeg@icloud.com>> wrote: > > I'm probably missing something, but if the user doesn't select the path for Java types, what do we show in the editor in the model viewers? My initial thought was that they could just select it from the mapper, but after i thought about it some more I wrote the last bit of my email about selecting the Java type in the wizard. > >> >> Another idea I’ve been playing around with is removing support for changing the source and target types in the editor and instead allowing the user to select the target type in the wizard. Since changing a source or target type invalidates all mappings anyway, I don’t think this is much of an inconvenience. It also makes life simpler as we won’t need to change the Camel config from within the mapper editor any longer to update source/target types. If we went ahead with this plan, then my comments above about skipping the source/target pages in the wizard would no longer apply. Instead, we would have a page where the user had a type browser where they selected the source and target type on each page. > > So if the user changes their mind about source and/or target, they just delete the existing transformation.xml before restarting the wizard? Sorry, I phrased the last part of my initial email bit poorly and conflated two things. I will break them up: 1) We should prompt for the model class in the new transformation wizard for Java source/target types. 2) If we do (1), we have an option to remove support for changing the type in the editor. We should definitely do (1), in my opinion. (2) is optional - an advantage is that it removes the need to prompt for camel context location when opening a map directly from the project explorer. regards, keith