Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Jasintha Dasanayake
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Gayan Yalpathwala gay...@wso2.com wrote: Hi, Visual data mapper currently operates by taking two avro schemas for input and output. Considering the fact that end users are not supposed to write avro schema by themselves, we have decided to provide a UI to

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Gayan Yalpathwala
Hi Jasintha, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Jasintha Dasanayake jasin...@wso2.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Gayan Yalpathwala gay...@wso2.comwrote: Hi, Visual data mapper currently operates by taking two avro schemas for input and output. Considering the fact that end

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Susinda Perera
Hi Gayan Don't we represent this nullable and nillable check-boxes with some user understandable captions. These are xml/avro schema jargon and IMO these need to be replaced with something more meaningful for user. Thanks On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Gayan Yalpathwala gay...@wso2.com

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Isabelle Mauny
All, I think Not Null with a checkbox works out. Pretty standard in SQL tools. Isabelle. - *Isabelle Mauny* Director, Product Management; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: isabe...@wso2.com - mobile (Spain) :

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Gayan Yalpathwala
Hi Isabelle, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Isabelle Mauny isabe...@wso2.com wrote: All, I think Not Null with a checkbox works out. Pretty standard in SQL tools. +1 for this approach. Isabelle. -

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-10 Thread Viraj Rajaguru
Hi, I also prefer not to have a dialog box to enter element name, type etc. Instead we can use sub context menu to select add records, add record arrays and add fields etc. If there are any additional parameters to be configured for a particular element we can use eclipse's default properties

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-09 Thread Harshana Eranga Martin
Hi Gayan, Please see comments inline. On 9 Apr 2014 15:10, Gayan Yalpathwala gay...@wso2.com wrote: Hi, Visual data mapper currently operates by taking two avro schemas for input and output. Considering the fact that end users are not supposed to write avro schema by themselves, we have

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-09 Thread Susinda Perera
Hi Harshana Yes it is yet another option and we have tried this tool and it has some issues with namespaces and also it generates separate files for each of complex datatypes. If we use this i think we need to improve this and fix the above issues. Thanks On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:48 PM,

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-09 Thread Asanka Sanjeewa
Hi GayanK, In building input and output trees at what point we decide the tree building has been completed and schemas needs to be generated based on the constructed trees? Thanks and Regards, AsankaS. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Susinda Perera susi...@wso2.com wrote: Hi Harshana Yes

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-09 Thread Lali Devamanthri
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Asanka Sanjeewa asan...@wso2.com wrote: Hi GayanK, In building input and output trees at what point we decide the tree building has been completed and schemas needs to be generated based on the constructed trees? Ideally schema should generate when

Re: [Architecture] Visual tool to manually build data-mapper input and output tree structures

2014-04-09 Thread Gayan Yalpathwala
Hi all, Please find comments inline. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Lali Devamanthri l...@wso2.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Asanka Sanjeewa asan...@wso2.com wrote: Hi GayanK, In building input and output trees at what point we decide the tree building has been