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

Is Teiid equipped in 8.x to handle adhering to the values in the dependent VDBs?

Add a vdb reuse feature ----------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-1403 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-1403 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Sub-task Components: Teiid Integration, VDB & Execution Affects Versions: 7.0 Reporter: Steven Hawkins Assignee: Dan Florian Fix For: 8.0 See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-1366, which not only replaces mergeVDB functionality, but provides a declarative way for vdbs to be reused at runtime. Designer will need to provide a representation of the reuse feature that includes: - Optionally an artifact that represents a vdb to import, but that only contains the consumable metadata - not the transformations. - A way to manage those imported artifacts in the context of a workspace - A way to edit the imports in the vdb.xml to specify the name/version of what's expected at runtime - preview would be broken unless a deployed version the An expected flow should be available from GSS customer requests and at a high-level could be described as: Team 1 develops a vdb and exports the "reuse vdb" without transformation metadata for use by Team 2 or Team 1 develops a vdb and provides it directly to Team 2 Team 2 develops a new vdb using the reuse vdb - no access is needed to the original vdb