Henry Saginor created FELIX-3769:
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Summary: Improve the way Web Console UI manages growing number of
plugins.
Key: FELIX-3769
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3769
Project: Felix
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Web Console
Reporter: Henry Saginor
Priority: Minor
Something needs to be done about growing number of web console plugins.
Currently the UI displays a tab for each plugin. This makes the UI cluttered as
more and more plugins are added. To address the tabs should be replaced with a
tree structure or a drop-down menu.
Felix Meschberger has proposed the following on the dev list to implement this.
"* Plugins registered as services may have a "felix.webconsole.category"
property
indicating the category. Plugins not registering this property will be placed in
the default category
* AbstractWebConsolePlugin is ammended with a getCategory() method, which may
overwritten by implementations. The default implementation in the
AbstractWebConsolePlugin class returns the default category
* A default category can be configured
* Categories are simple strings such as "OSGi" or relative paths such as
"Sling/Main". Relative paths define multi-level trees. I think in general a
single level is probably enough. Maybe we can start with just supporting a
single level (so just plain strings).
* Translation of categories is such that each segment in the path (or the
complete string if there is no sub-categories) is converted into a translation
label by prefixing with "category.". So the translation for the "OSGi" category
would be found with the translation string "category.OSGi".
* The plugin navigation is refactored to move it to the left and render it as a
tree structure (I assume we can use the JQuery treetable plugin)."
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