Hi Sergio, I think adding an extra category is a great idea but this will only help during the development of a pipeline or workflow. Another extra option we could consider is adding a visual indicator to the transform/action on the canvas. on the right top we add a (v) or (x) when a transform has finished running but maybe we can add an indicator to the left top to indicate that a transform is experimental or deprecated in the current version of Hop.
We can extend the plugin annotation to indicate the "state" of the plugin. In the future we could add extra information to that left top corner. for example, indicate that you are using a plugin that wasn't developed for that version of Hop Would love to hear everyone's opinion on this idea. Cheers, Hans On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM Sergio Ramazzina (SERASOFT) < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > yesterday I released a PR containing the new Enhanced JSON Output > Transform I ported from our Kettle plugins to Hop. It is a little > different and more powerful respect to the current JSON Output transform > and was written mainly to overcome its limitations. I'm going to write > the needed documentation and build some samples that I will push as soon > as possible so that anyone will be able to try it out. The new transform > is completely based on Jackson to process JSON files. All the new > functionality like Pritty Printing and Injection has been applied to > this new Transform leaving the original unchanged. > > Would be nice in my opinion to introduce a new category of the Transform > selection dialog that we can call Preview and put in there all the new > Transforms that we decide to include in Hop. They will be considereded > more explicitly as "Beta Versions" until we vote to promote the new > Transform as "Production Ready" or "Certified" and move them in the real > categories. > > Cheers > > Sergio > > > -- >
