Shane, thanks for putting this together. The updates on the Jira are useful as well.
> (we used it for more than just that in this feature, but that was the initial reasoning) What are you using NgRx for in the submitted work that goes beyond the aggregation feature? On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 12:22 PM Shane Ardell <shane.m.ard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In response to discussions in the 0.7.1 release thread, I wanted to start a > thread regarding the parser aggregation work for the Management UI. For > anyone who has not already read and tested the PR locally, I've added a > detailed description of what we did and why to the JIRA ticket here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1856 > > I'm wondering what the community thinks about what we've built thus far. Do > you see anything missing that must be part of this new feature in the UI? > Are there any strong objections to how we implemented it? > > I’m also looking to see if anyone has any thoughts on how we can possibly > simplify this PR. Right now it's pretty big, and there are a lot of commits > to parse through, but I'm not sure how we could break this work out into > separate, smaller PRs opened against master. We could try to cherry-pick > the commits into smaller PRs and then merge them into a feature branch, but > I'm not sure if that's worth the effort since that will only reduce the > number commits to review, not the lines changed. > > As an aside, I also want to give a little background into the introduction > of NgRx in this PR. To give a little background on why we chose to do this, > you can refer to the discussion thread here: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06a59ea42e8d9a9dea5f90aab4011e44434555f8b7f3cf21297c7c87@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E > > We previously discussed introducing a better way to manage application > state in both UIs in that thread. It was decided that NgRx was a great tool > for many reasons, one of them being that we can piecemeal it into the > application rather than doing a huge rewrite of all the application state > at once. The contributors in this PR (myself included) decided this would > be a perfect opportunity to introduce NgRx into the Management UI since we > need to manage the previous and current state with the grouping feature so > that users can undo the changes they've made (we used it for more than just > that in this feature, but that was the initial reasoning). In addition, we > greatly benefited from this when it came time to debug our work in the UI > (the discussion in the above thread link goes a little more into the > advantages of debugging with NgRx and DevTools). Removing NgRx from this > work would reduce the numbers of lines changed slightly, but it would still > be a big PR and a lot of that code would just move to the component or > service level in the Angular application. > > Shane >
