[teiid-designer-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIIDDES-1403) Add a vdb reuse feature

[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-1403?page=com.atlassian.jira.plu... ] Barry LaFond edited comment on TEIIDDES-1403 at 8/6/12 5:01 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issues include * extracting table/view/column metadata from VDB containing Source and View Models * How does Designer use this metadata in the current Transormation framework * Tracking and injecting VDB imports into workspace VDBs at design-time Possible solution: * Export Metadata (DDL ?) from a VDB and convert to a Foreign Source Model containing some new relational extension data * EXAMPLE: isForeignModel == TRUE , vdbName == "employeesVDB" * Foreign Source Models would have to maintain some original PATH information * Foreign Source Models would have to include actual View/Table/Column UUID's * when that source model is added to a VDB, the vdb import would be created and that Foreign Source model NOT added to VDB was (Author: blafond): Issues include * extracting table/view/column metadata from VDB containing Source and View Models * How does Designer use this metadata in the current Transormation framework * Tracking and injecting VDB imports into workspace VDBs at design-time Possible solution: * Export Metadata (DDL ?) from a VDB and convert to a Foreign Source Model containing some new relational extension data * EXAMPLE: isForeignModel == TRUE , vdbName == "employeesVDB" * when that source model is added to a VDB, the vdb import would be created and that Foreign Source model NOT added to VDB -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira