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

[Ramesh Reddy (JIRA)]

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Ramesh Reddy commented on TEIID-3140:
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The designation is based on file type or metadata type? File type is environment specific detail whether it XML or .ZIP file, and there are many metadata types, NATIVE, DDL, .INDEX, USERDEFINED etc. 

If you are looking for file designation, isXMLDeployment should be sufficient.  If you are looking for metadata designation each model can be different, it needs to handled differently. I do not even think we track this currently as everything is just metadata. Increasingly most of the Dynamic VDB  model metadata can be generated from multiple different metadata repos, like NATIVE and DDL. What we call that?

BTW, PREVIEW is designation that Designer gave, runtime has no knowledge of it is just a custom property, there is no XML. DEFAULT is .INDEX files. 

> 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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