[teiid-designer-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIIDDES-2401) Add support exporting the Designer VDB as Dynamic VDB

[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-2401?page=com.atlassian.jira.plu... ] Barry LaFond commented on TEIIDDES-2401: ---------------------------------------- In debug, I intercepted the getSchema() method via the Teiid importer and verified that if I give it deployed VDB name, it can return virtual table DDL for a view model. So, my next question is.... wouldn't it be fairly straight forward to "export" a VDB.vdb as a dynamic VDB? I.e. Teiid runtime does the conversion? All the metadata is already on the server side, (including the -vdb.xml maniffest) and the methods to convert the metadata into DDL already work. All that's left is to inject the DDL into the VDB XML and the conversion is done? If we're going to require the user to Deploy a VDB anyway in order to create a dynamic VDB version of it, seems like the utility makes more sense as part of the API. maybe something like: *String getDynamicVdb(String vdbName, int version, String[] modelNames, EnumSet<SchemaObjectType> allowedTypes, String typeNamePattern));* Designer would wrap this as maybe an *Convert to Dynamic VDB* action for a deployed VDB (server view/wizard) or via an action in the workspace that would/could temporarily auto-deploy a VDB, do the import/conversion, then undeploy the VDB. Being on the server-side, users could also programattically convert/export EMF VDB's to dynamic VDBs. Openshift would also benefit if users were going to migrate in the future. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.11#6341)