It would. I'll look into it. Thx Dan
On 11 November 2015 at 14:43, Willie Loyd Tandingan <tandingan....@gmail.com > wrote: > Hey Dan, > > I just tried it and works great for domain object, properties, collections! > > Is it possible to extend it also for action results? Our use case involves > search actions (with keywords, or all) returning lists that need to be > displayed in a grid. > > > Many thanks, > Willie > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk > > > wrote: > > > Hi Willie, > > > > Edit:this was in my drafts, forgot to send! Don't think it says anything > > you didn't work out already... > > > > just following up, I've got the x-ro-follow-links stuff working to > support > > the eager loading of either collections, or of parent references; ie > > ISIS-1232 and ISIS-1233. My original plan for x-ro-follow-links was to > > make it fully generic, but that's a lot of testing without necessarily > any > > real use case. So I think I'm going to descope it just to support your > use > > cases. > > > > To explain how to use this feature I've recorded a screencast [1] which > > uses the kitchensink app [2] > > > > If you want to try this out, you'll need to checkout the ISIS-1232 branch > > and build locally. > > > > Feedback welcome! > > > > Thx > > Dan > > > > [1] https://youtu.be/hSKnqqBQ7Zo > > [2] https://github.com/isisaddons/isis-app-kitchensink > > Hi Willie, > > > > I admit I haven't thought about any of this too much over and above > what's > > in the spec (that I wrote a *long* time ago). I just wanted to commit > > myself mentally to doing this stuff soon. > > > > I know that some of this stuff has been implemented on Naked Objects.NET, > > so I will check with those guys (Richard and Stef) to see how they did > it. > > > > But if you have ideas, please feel free to comment on the tickets raised. > > > > Thx > > Dan > > > > > > > > On 4 November 2015 at 16:57, Willie Loyd Tandingan < > > tandingan....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > That's great to hear! > > > > > > I'm pretty curious on how x-ro-sort-by, x-ro-page, and x-ro-page-size > > will > > > be implemented. Will these parameters be acquired from a request scoped > > > service or something like an action invocation context? How about the > > > properties for the paged collection e.g. total number of records, page > > > number, size, etc.? > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Dan Haywood < > > d...@haywood-associates.co.uk> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I've raised ISIS-1232, ISIS-1233, ISIS-1234 and ISIS-1235 for these. > > > I'll > > > > aim to implement the first two (x-ro-follow-links, table grids) in > > > 1.11.0. > > > > > > > > Thx > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1232 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1233 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1234 > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1235 > > > > > > > > > > > > On 15 October 2015 at 22:26, Dan Haywood < > d...@haywood-associates.co.uk > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > OK, I can focus on those sections, as and when I get the chance. > > > > > > > > > > IIRC, I did implement some of the x-ro-follow-links stuff, but it > > must > > > > > have been over 2 years ago, so I forget the details as to how to > make > > > it > > > > > work exactly. Some slightly odd xpath-like syntax, I think. > > > > > > > > > > Thx > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > On 14 October 2015 at 19:29, Willie Loyd Tandingan < > > > > > tandingan....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Hello Dan, > > > > >> > > > > >> The short answer is no. I'm not averse to enhancing this with > > > > extensions > > > > >> > as they make sense. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > But the longer answer is that there a couple of SPI services > that > > > > allow > > > > >> you > > > > >> > to customize the representations, [1], [2]. The default RO > > > > >> representations > > > > >> > are performed by an implementation of [1]. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Eventually I'm thinking that Isis might provide out-of-the-box > > > > >> > implementations for HAL, Collection+JSON, Siren etc... but you > > might > > > > >> find > > > > >> > that your client-side (Javascript?) widget UI libraries work > best > > > with > > > > >> some > > > > >> > other more "adhoc" representations. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > What these SPI services *don't* allow is for the resources > defined > > > by > > > > RO > > > > >> > (or their input JSON) to change. I don't see any particular > need > > to > > > > >> > customize this, though. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> I think I saw ContentMappingService being used in ToDoApp. Using > > those > > > > >> SPIs > > > > >> would work, however while going through the Spiro framework as > > > discussed > > > > >> in > > > > >> the other thread, I saw interesting additional sections in the RO > > spec > > > > >> v1.1.0 about: > > > > >> > > > > >> 34.4 Minimizing Round-trips (x-ro-follow-links) > > > > >> 34.9 Minimizing Round-trips by supporting table grids > > > > >> > > > > >> I had skimmed through RO v1.0.0 before and afaik, those weren't > > there > > > > yet. > > > > >> Those sections, especially 34.9, addresses our need. > > > > >> > > > > >> 34.2 Sorting (x-ro-sort-by) and 34.3 Pagination (x-ro-page, > > > > >> x-ro-page-size) > > > > >> are also nice to haves. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
