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 decided to provide a UI to manually build the schema of input and output. This will basically extend the current input and output boxes implementation in data-mapper editor. > > Users can build the schema from scratch and add a new element by choosing the option provided in right click menu. > > > > This will pop up the following dialog asking user input for element name and respective attributes. > > > > Here, Element type combo box will list all primitive types supported by avro. Eg:- STRING, INT, DOUBLE etc. > > The element added will appear as the root node of a tree structure and user can add more elements by choosing either "Add new child" or "Add new sibling" options from right click menu. These two options will be available for every element added further. > > > A user can use this method to build a complete schema without having any idea about the underlying avro schema specification.
It's true that user does not have an idea aboit builing an Avro schema. But the user has to be familiar with the XML terminology to use it. So it is good for Technical users but not the Businees users. So you need to make sure tool is usable by a simple business user who wish to move his data in salesforce to sap. Having all the XML terminology is not a good idea in that case. In the meantime you can have a look at [1] on possibility of using it for converting XML configs to Avro. It makes the life so much easy for the users. However for other data formats also you need a such tool. [1]. https://github.com/Nokia/Avro-Schema-Generator Hope this helps! /Harshana > > Please raise and forward if you have any thoughts and concerns on design aspects and the flow that I have mentioned. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Gayan Kaushalya Yalpathwala > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com > lean.enterprise.middleware > > mobile: +94 71 8682704 > > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > Architecture@wso2.org > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >
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