[teiid-dev] ra.xml specific

[Sanjay Chaudhuri]

Great; these answers will help me to move forward. Shall come back incase I
need additional info.

I shall replace the loopback classes with the 5 template java classes I see
on the Cdk connector for now.

Thanks

Sanjay


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ramesh Reddy <rareddy at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Good questions.
>
> > 1. <config-property> is defined as: description*,
> > config-property-name, config-property-type, config-property-value?
> > Will the ra.xml editor show a 4 column table only with the
> > config-properties ? This would mean that we DO NOT show the whole xml
> > in a nested tree.
> I do not think showing the whole tree is necessary. Our main aim here is
> to add "user" properties that are specific to the connector needed to be
> added easily. Those are "config-property" section. So, if we can add
> those through GUI that is enough to satisfy our need. You can leave
> manual editing of "ra.xml" up to the user. We do not want hide the
> resulting file either.
>
> >
> > 2. Capability to add/delete description, property-name, property-type,
> > property-value which would update ra.xml on the fly.
> Yes. Note that "config-property-value" denotes a "default" value
> supplied by the user. Also, "config-property" can have multiple
> "description" fields. May be you can let them add multi-line description
> and add each line as one "description" element inside "config-property".
> Here is sample block.
>
> <config-property>
>  <description>Is Immutable</description>
>  <description>True if the source never changes.</description>
>  <config-property-name>Immutable</config-property-name>
>  <config-property-type>java.lang.Boolean</config-property-type>
>  <config-property-value>true</config-property-value>
> </config-property>
>
> Note the "config-property-type", they can be any "java.lang" objects,
> may be you want to provide a "drop down" selection on that field.
>
> >
> > 3. Do we need to validate schema restrictions ?
> Yes/no, the ra.xml schema is defined by JCA 1.5 spec. You can find it
> here
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/connector_1_5.xsd
>
> If we let user manually edit, Yes. Which I think we should.
>
> >
> > 4. Which properties class the get/set to be added ? Is the properties
> > class generated if it's not in the workspace ?
> The template will have a configuration class with name like
> "xxManagedConnectionFactory.java". Check here for the template classes I
> promised. I will keep them updated if any changes and let you know.
>
> http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/teiid/branches/JCA/connectors/sandbox/connector-template/
>
>
> >
> > 5. How to use the optional <config-property-value> attribute in the
> > properties class ?
>
> Properties call will only have getters and setters. By having the
> "config-property-value"
> in the ra.xml file the container will automatically assign them on startup
> of connector.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ramesh..
>
>
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