[jboss-as7-dev] add operation in CLI GUI

[Jason T. Greene]

On 1/12/12 8:44 PM, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
> On 1/12/2012 7:15 PM, Kabir Khan wrote:
>> On 12 Jan 2012, at 19:39, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/12/2012 1:09 PM, Kabir Khan wrote:
>>>>> On 1/12/2012 11:39 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>>>>>> I could suggest two ways to workaround this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - node type as a 'folder', currently the unit is node-type=node-name,
>>>>>> instead node-type could be a folder that contained node-names and you
>>>>>> could click on the node-type to add new nodes.
>>>>> Early on I was going to do it this way, but it became clear that it
>>>>> would be overly complicated and would break with the directory notion in
>>>>> the CLI where a directory is /subsystem=jca/, not /subsystem/jca/.  Once
>>>>> you replace = with / you lose sight of the underlying address scheme.
>>>> Could the structure perhaps be
>>>> subsystem/
>>>>   subsystem=jca
>>>>   subsystem=jmx
>>>> Or is that too weird?
>>> I just tried that and it did indeed get weird.  You end up with nodes
>>> that don't have any correspondence to the address path.  So you have to
>>> code around it all over the place.  It also made any sort of refresh
>>> impossible to implement without significant hacks.  I do need to improve
>>> refresh at some point and I don't want to make that any harder than it
>>> already is.
>>>
>>> Try my three latest commits found here and let me know what you think:
>>> https://github.com/ssilvert/jboss-as/commits/cli-gui-fixadd
>>>
>>> Alexey, once you see it, let me know if you still think that "?" makes
>>> more sense than "*".  That's an easy change.
>> It looks better, perhaps instead of * or ? some descriptive string (that will not crash with any names used, so something like ***Root***) could work. Just an idea, not sure if it is a good or bad one...
> I'm thinking of using a different icon to set it apart.

One other idea to throw out there. Instead of trying to represent this 
in the model you could just have a button somewhere that is context 
sensitive, perhaps a tool bar like thing [+]. When you click [+] a 
dialog pops up with the FQN in the top, which defaults to the currently 
selected position in the tree, another non-modifiable box with the 
description, and then a modifiable box that the user types in DMR form. 
If you change the FQN the description would then be refreshed to 
indicate what the new format is.

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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat