Can we please stop calling these cloud connectors? They are just "connectors" to external APIs- the APIs can be anywhere, including within the enterprise. They're just a convenient "stub" to get to an API. In the future, I'd like to auto generate these from the API store even (yeah I know we're missing some info yet).
Sanjiva. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Kasun Indrasiri <ka...@wso2.com> wrote: > We had several offline discussions on the $subject and we came up with > some enhancements. > > > *Renaming connector 'config' operation* > > It seems using 'config' as an operation in a given connector is bit > confusing. > These are the alternatives that we have discussed. > > *"twitter.login"* - (IMO, loging is not a generic term and that might > depends on the API that we are using) > > *"twitter.init"* - We can init a connector and then invoke any operation. > If we want to switch to a different config, we can again to an init with a > different config and so on. > > (We need these changes for 4.8) > > *Registry Browser for selecting connector config (DevS)* > > Add a registry browser button in the Init Ref(or config) property field in > Dev Studio so that users don't have to remember and type the Init > configuration's registry path in the field but can select it. > > *Field Auto-completion (DevS/connectors) * > > We need to be able to provide auto-complete and documentation on each > operation, so we talked about generating XSDs for them. The XSDs can be > part of the connector archive. However, we will be able to add this in a > future ESB release. > > Please share your thoughts and incorporate the required changes in to 4.8. > > -- > Kasun Indrasiri > Software Architect > WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > lean.enterprise.middleware > > cell: +94 77 556 5206 > Blog : http://kasunpanorama.blogspot.com/ > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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