Need to improve the concept of how we're using and presenting the standard File and Web Service procedures ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-1250 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-1250 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Modeling Reporter: Barry LaFond Priority: Critical Fix For: 8.3 Attachments: TEIIDDES-1250.txt As we're developing more and more importers and model generators that utilize or require a source model containing getText(), getTextFiles(), invoke() or invokeHTTP(), it seems that we're spending a lot of time: 1) Re-coding the logic to generate them to utilize the "Source" or connection profile stored in them 2) Explaining to the user that this is "Required" and how/why it's happening. The ONLY reason user-intervention is required is because currently, a Source model is needed as the carrier of the specific FILE or WSDL URL information. (Used to create "Data Source") If this File/WSDL URL info was NOT included in these source models, then we could create a Built-in FileFunctions.xmi Source model that's delivered with the product and included in a VDB ANY time it's required. To make this happen, we'd need another mechanism to persist the connection information and that might be the "View Model" that contains the SQL that contains the actual "File" or "URL" definition. This sort of makes sense. I know our current "Preview Data" and "Create Data Source" framework only works with Source models, but if we could change this behavior we would save a LOT of pain and anguish for the user AND us developers in the future. Currently this would simplify 3 different import wizards, remove a couple of Options in the "New > Teiid Metadata Model > Relational" wizard use case and remove a step or two from EACH cheat sheet or section in the documentation.