[Hawkular-dev] resource config and operations

[Heiko W.Rupp]

On 8 Jun 2015, at 18:27, John Mazzitelli wrote:

> I am working in my own branch, but am about to introduce resource 
> configuration and operations to the resource type metadata. This was 
> in part due to the UI folks needing the hostname to show in the GUI.
>
> I wanted to let people know what this looks like - speak now if you 
> see problems.
>
> The resourceType will now have as part of its attached metadata a list 
> named "resourceConfiguration" which consists of config property types 
> (today, there is only "name" associated with resource config property 
> types, but you can envision other things like "dataType" (for boolean, 
> integers, etc)).
>
> There is also a list of operations (today, consists of only a name and 
> optional "operationName").
>
> The JSON for resourceType looks like this inside inventory (this is 
> for the top level "WildFly Server" type):
>
>          "tenant": "28026b36-8fe4-4332-84c8-524e173a68bf",
>          "id": "WildFly Server",

Are we sure that for the same thing (e.g. 'WildFly 8.2") we want to
have potentially different and/or duplicate definitions per tenant?

>         "version": "0.1",
>          "properties":
>          {
>              "name": "WildFly Server",
>              "operations":
>              [
>                  {
>                      "name": "Reload Server",
>                      "operationName": "reload"

We need to add some security level to each operation
from the very start. None vs required may be enough
though.


>                 }
>              ],
>              "resourceConfiguration":
>              [
>                  {
>                      "name": "Hostname"
>                  },
>                  {
>                      "name": "Max Heap"
>                  },
>                  {
>                      "name": "Version"
>                  }
>              ]
>          }
>
> A resource of this type would look like:
>
>      "tenant": "28026b36-8fe4-4332-84c8-524e173a68bf",
>      "environment": "test",
>      "feed": "mazztower",
>      "id": "[Local Host~/]",
>      "type": <<<what I showed above>>>,

Is that a "link" or embedded?