On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Gayan Yalpathwala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Data-mapper configuration file that is generated from the tool is
> currently saved in .js (javascript) extension which is planned to be
> changed to an abstract file type (Let's say .mapconfig). This is mainly
> because, user does not need to be aware that the configuration is in
> javascript since we are not going to support reverse-engineering for manual
> changes done in the file.
>
> Additionally, in order to populate data-mapper editor in developer studio,
> two other files (.datamapper and .datamapper_diagram) are generated
> automatically. These files are not known to the user yet they are
> compulsory to be present in the system to generate the design view.
>
> This becomes a concern when analyzing use case of 'importing an existing
> configuration from the file system'. Here, user browsing a xxx.mapconfig
> file from file system will not be sufficient as other two files are
> missing. What if we can come up with a compound file type which is
> obviously a zip type including .mapconfig, .datamapper and
> .datamapper_diagram in it? I hope this will solve the above problem as user
> can point the compound file directly.
>

At the moment, we create two files for imported avro schemas (input/output)
in registry resource project. IMO we need to push those two files also in
to the suggested compound file.


> Thanks,
>
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