Ideally what I'd like to see is similar to what you have in mind I think: 1. Sorted by order on the main management page. 2. Ordering of items is actually done by dragging/dropping on that management page (a la Netflix) via something like the Fluid Reorderer.
Thoughts? On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Misagh Moayyed <mmoay...@unicon.net> wrote: > Folks, **** > > ** ** > > Started to evaluate this new CAS feature request: > https://issues.jasig.org/browse/CAS-1013 **** > > ** ** > > Few thoughts:**** > > ** ** > > **1. **I would imagine that setting up a basic numeric value to > indicate order would be much easier to understand than regular expression > patterns. I certainly would be in favor of the property, but what I find > confusing is that services management UI does not list the registered > services by their order, but sorts them using their name. I think this is > pretty misleading because you could have service A up at the top with the > order 999999 and the user would probably assume that just because it comes > first, it gets to be evaluated first as well. I think it’d be better if we > modify the UI to sort by evaluation order**** > > ** ** > > **2. **Why not show the value of the order on the UI in the list of > services ? The scenario would be that if I want to register a new service, > wouldn’t it be easier to know what the order of the new service should be > beforehand rather than going back and forth between previously registered > services and trying to find what the order should be based on other > services? As the original comment on the feature says, if it’s on the main > services page, it would be a better reminder for it to be updated.**** > > ** ** > > **3. **I have also looked at ANTLR to see if an existing algorithm > already exists. So far, haven’t found any other alternative. So, for > starters if order really has to go away, how about something like the > following priority order:**** > > ** ** > > **a. **Non-pattern URLs **** > > **b. **Longer URLs**** > > **c. **Prefer URLs that use “?” over those that use “**” or “*”**** > > ** ** > > Suggestions are welcome. **** > > ** ** > > *-Misagh** > > * > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev > > -- You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev
