Great work, Giacomo! I wonder if this work could be continued to eventually use Camel to drive all of the various "tasks" in Syncope? For example, Camel could be used to drive a "notification task", which would give a huge degree of flexibility in terms of generating notifications. Same goes for propagation/synchronization. Interested in your thoughts on this.
Francesco, is there any compelling reason not to merge this work for 1.2 instead of 1.3? We seem to be quite some way off releasing 1.2, hence my question. Colm. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgro...@apache.org>wrote: > Hi Giacomo, > as I've already told you in person, this is really great stuff. > > Comparing to the "standard" Syncope trunk - from which the project > available at [2] was forked - your code offers greater flexibility when it > comes to customize the UserController / RoleController methods' behavior, > since the whole application logic is now delegated to some Camel routes. > > As a "serial Syncope deployer", let me remark how in most deployments a > consistent part of the effort is related to adapt the standard behavior for > user / role operations to customer's needs: usually working with workflow > definition is enough, sometimes deeper customizations are needed, and the > only option so far was to override the whole Java method in the local > overlay. > > Moreover, Camel routes can be dynamically changed at runtime via REST > calls, and it is also possible to edit such routes via the admin console - > with bare XML editor currently, but I guess some fancy Javascript editor > can be put in place as well, as we did for Activiti workflow. > > Again, great stuff: now, assuming you are willing to see your changes in > the "official" Syncope, it's time to start discussing about the best way to > handle this. > > Personally, I would: > > 1. copy the current SVN trunk to a a new 1_2_X branch > 2. change version to 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT on trunk > 3. (since Giacomo has already a valid ICLA in ASF foundation records) ask > Giacomo to open a new feature on JIRA (fix for version: 1.3.0) with > attached a patch generated via GitHub from [2] > > WDYT? > > Regards. > > > On 04/04/2014 12:07, Giacomo Lamonaco wrote: > >> Hi all, >> as you know, in the previous months I worked on an early integration of >> Apache Camel in Syncope. The original purpose was to introduce a new >> component, the provisioning manager, that deals with user and role >> management. We decided to use Camel as base of the new component: we >> supposed that Camel routes could be used to express the provisioning >> logic.. and maybe we were right. >> >> In these months I simplified both the user and the role controller: every >> operation that had to do with these two concepts (i.e. user creation),has >> been moved in the provisioning manager and now it's expressed using a >> route. This means that now we have a more accurate control on what's >> happening in the provisioning process and, using the right syntax, we can >> define complex behaviour. >> >> In the last part of the work, we decided to focus more on the Syncope >> Console: we decided to add a new REST service that allows to read the >> routes definitions, and possibly modify them. You can find this new service >> under the Configuration section. In this case, routes are expressed through >> Spring DSL. >> >> We decided to extend the Syncope Console for one main reason: Camel >> allows to add/remove routes at runtime, without stopping its context. In >> our case, since Camel routes represent part of Syncope provisioning logic, >> we are able to update some provisioning behaviour by changing the route >> content. In other word, if we want to change some provisioning logic, now >> we don't need to stop Syncope and create a new classes: we can do it >> directly in the console, without stopping Syncope. >> >> As a final result, I made a video [1] that shows how to work with the new >> component. In my case, I'm updating the user creation route at runtime: >> with this modification, every time a new user is added, an email is sent to >> system administrator. >> >> What do you think? It make sense to integrate this work in Syncope? >> Let me know! >> >> Thanks for your attention. >> >> [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25BFqaI8qw >> > [2] https://github.com/Tirasa/SyncopeCamel > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > > Tirasa - Open Source Excellence > http://www.tirasa.net/ > > Involved at The Apache Software Foundation: > member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
