Improvements to prototype graphical console
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Key: ARIES-303
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-303
Project: Aries
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Samples
Reporter: Holly Cummins
Priority: Minor
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-302?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
Ultimately there are two use cases for the console; the first is as a dynamic
replacement for the power point pictures we use in demos to illustrate the
architecture of the blog sample, and the second is as a management console.
We'll want different things in the two scenarios - in general, we'll want a lot
of abstraction when we're using the console to illustrate what's happening in a
demo, but using the console to debug or manage a proper system would need much
more detail. For example, we may not want to show the bundle IDs for a demo,
and we may want to programatically filter out bundles which aren't part of the
blog sample. I think a good way to achieve these two modes is to provide a
customisable set of preferences, and we can ship with two default modes,
'abstract' and 'diagnosis' (say). We could use a different URL pattern to swap
between the modes, and also allow users to customise the preferences files to
create hybrid modes.
I've taken a step towards this by allowing some of what's shown to be turned
off and moving the control for that switch into a separate javascript file. The
next steps will be to externalise it to a user-editable file, possibly in
combination with a set of controls in the GUI and cookie persistence.
I've also added a visual representation of the bundle state, so that bundles
which aren't active are greyed out. At the moment they go a slightly bilious
yellow when they're not active, but we can fine tune the colours as we go. :)
(Depending on the preferences setting, we can show the state as a text string,
use the visualization, or do both.)
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