Hi all,

Couple of questions related with themes inheritance and redefinition: 

1. Is there any way to add a new section and configurations to display on an 
existing themes file? 

For HBASE in HDP stack I saw initial themes is defined in 2.2 stack and in 2.3 
some configuration/widgets are removed (pointed to null).

For RANGER, two theme files are defined with different name for HDP 2.2 
(theme_version_1.json) and HDP 2.3 (theme_version_2,.json). New section, 
properties and widget are added in version_2 compared with version_1.

My doubt is, is it possible to overwrite theme.json file to add new subsection 
similar to the merge process .xml files are doing or it needs to be complete 
redefined?



2. How is the design for merging theme.json file?

In case a service has some theme.json file inherited from the previous stack 
(stack inheritance) and the new stack version also extends a common-service 
definition with themes on it (service inheritance). Are they merged? Does the 
new one defined in common services overwrite the stack inherited one?

A good example could be if HBASE in HDP 2.3 extends a new common-service 
definition (lets say 1.2.0.2.3) with a new theme definition, and HDP 2.3 
receives also a theme file from previous HDP 2.2 stack inheritance.

I'm facing java errors when trying to merge theme.json files with a scenario 
similar to the oneĀ  detailed below. Im not sure if the java code 
(org.apache.ambari.server.state.theme.Section.mergeWithParent) is supporting 
this double inheritance stack& service for theme .json files.

Does anyone have some insight on it?

Thanks for your help

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