[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIID-3140) Add getVDBType() method to the VDB interface

[Barry LaFond (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3140?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13006108#comment-13006108 ] 

Barry LaFond commented on TEIID-3140:
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I don't think so.

Having to look inside the VDB object for specific properties, is simple enough. Currently in Designer, we're doing that to discover "preview = true".  If we even expose isXmlDeployment() on the VDB, we'd still have to find yet another way/method to discover whether or not a VDB is a Dynamic VDB ZIP file (containing DDL files).  

Teiid supports, out of the box, DEFAULT, PREVIEW, XML, DDL. Exposing a simple TYPE would clean up the interface and ability for tooling to quickly/easily determine what type of artifacts are deployed.

I think I understand (a little) that users can use some other metadata type (i.e. replace DDL).  Maybe we add a a 5th  type *USERDEFINED* to cover everthing else?

> Add getVDBType() method to the VDB interface
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TEIID-3140
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3140
>             Project: Teiid
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>            Reporter: Barry LaFond
>            Assignee: Steven Hawkins
>
> Because Teiid supports mutliple VDB types, any tooling designed to interact (edit, deploy, undeploy, display etc...) with the runtime VDBs will need to be able to easilly distinguish what each VDB type is.
> Currently Teiid Designer utilizes PREVIEW and defeault VDBs with *vdb* file extensions and there are 2 types of dynamic VDBs, *xml* and *zip* files backed by DDL model metadata definitions.
> The current VDB interface currently doesn't provide a type.
> Request adding something like:
> {code}
>     public enum VDBType {DEFAULT, PREVIEW, XML, DDL}
>     /**
>      * @return the vdb type
>      */
>     public VDBType getVDBType();
> {code}



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