[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBIDE-5358) Change how beans are expanded when added via the bean add dialog

[Tom Fennelly (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-5358?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tom Fennelly updated JBIDE-5358:
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    Fix Version/s: LATER
                       (was: 3.1.0.CR2)


OK... lets push it for now.

My issue with the current approach is that it has the potential to "explode" the bean mapping view with one click of the button by the user e.g. they ask to add a single bean on the canvas and boom.... 20 others get added with it and the user can't see the wood from the trees etc.  

As a user, I would prefer to be in control of expanding the model and I think this can be easily done by the user as he/she is adding the mappings, where he/she expands it more iteratively... adding the next bean down the model at the point in time when he/she is ready to add the mappings for that bean.

> Change how beans are expanded when added via the bean add dialog
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>                 Key: JBIDE-5358
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-5358
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: smooks
>            Reporter: Tom Fennelly
>            Assignee: Tom Fennelly
>             Fix For: LATER
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> At the moment, we iterate down the object model and add all sub-objects etc.  This is looking a bit messy because:
> 1. It requires the user to expand out a tree in the bottom half of the bean creation dialog, selecting the sub-domain objects he/she wants to be added.
> 2. The beans all land on the canvas at the one time, which requires a load of rearranging etc
> I think it would be nicer for the user if only the bean class entered in the Bean Creation wizard was dropped on the canvas, with all it's properties, but not drop in the sub-domain classes, wired together etc (as now).  If some of the properties are for sub-domain objects, the user should be able to right-click and add, resulting in that sub-domain object being added etc etc.  The user can expand it out as they want.

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