On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Manuranga Perera <m...@wso2.com> wrote:
> 1) We had a chat about how we can use gadget parameters instead of >>> generation, have you guys considered that approach? >>> >>> We have cases like database credentials which should not be shown to the >> user and should not be editable from the gadget properties. Further we also >> need a model that gadget should be greeted by some privileged user and used >> by others, so the gadget generation is the appropriate model to handle >> this. >> > I thought we can come up with a way to attach permissions to the params, > so they can be hidden depending on the user. (this will help us generally > not just for gadget gen case) > > Edit/ Re-generate function is not supported yet. >>> >>> 2) The issues is, with this model it will be harder to support that even >>> in the future. At least we should serialize all the parameters with the >>> generated gadget. >>> >> Editing is something we can achieve with very little effort, if we store >> all the properties that we have passed in the UI in a config file within >> the gadget then we can simply load that to the gadget generation wizard >> when we need to modify the gadget. >> > Ya, that's what I also meant by serialize. But in that case the UX is > broken compared to the parameter method, since the user still has to go > though the wizard again, and you can't see the values from the left panel. > As Suho said with this model we store all the user inputs for provider configuration and chart configuration in a json file (conf.json), so if required we can provider an UI option for the *priviledged* users to edit those properties in the future. So that user doesn't have to go through the wizard again. Thanks, Tanya > > -- > With regards, > *Manu*ranga Perera. > > phone : 071 7 70 20 50 > mail : m...@wso2.com > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > Architecture@wso2.org > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- Tanya Madurapperuma Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. : wso2.com Mobile : +94718184439 Blog : http://tanyamadurapperuma.blogspot.com
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