Hi All,
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Supun, Sanchit, Vijayendra, > > As Mentores we should not dictate what projects you write proposals, but > let me summarize all the projects and let you come to a consensus of who > does what. > > * Re-architecting Airavata Data Management -- Sachith is working on this > proposal. > * EC2 provider to be updated and ported to use JClouds - I see Nipun is > working on a proposal > * Integrating Airavata with GenApp (presented on gsoc hangout) - Nadeem > is working on this proposal > > Supun already has a proposal submitted for refactoring the web ui and > xbaya. > > Here are the fuzzy boarders: > > * Web UI from last year has six gsoc projects (including the admin > dashboard). This year they should not amount to more than a project or two > to update them to directly use thrift API and integrate with the a separate > Airavata Web UI builds. > > * XBaya is a beast. It has too many parts. Supun has touched on this, but > it does not hurt to have a project fully focused on it/ > > * The Thrift Client - Server Security/Identity Server is an idea for some > one to pick up. With the deadline less than 48 hours, I am worried it may > be too late. But on a good side, this can be modeled on how Evernote has > been implementing their own security (dev.evernote.com) and if some > spends enough time on thrift developer list, it should not be too hard to > mimic for Airavata. I will be happy to work with any one interested to > explain this project. > > I am more interested about working on the project "Add Security capabilities to Airavata Thrift services and Clients". I am working on submitting a proposal for that project. Hope Sanchith and Vijayendra can continue on working on the proposals for WebUI in Airavata. > Suresh > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Vijayendra Grampurohit < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Suresh > > > > Yes. I and sanchit were thinking of writing the proposal. As the > individual projects overlap and finally have to work together as a single > unit, I think it would be appropriate to divide the work and project. > > > > > > Regards > > Vijayendra > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Vijayendra, > > > > Are you planning to write a proposal? > > > > Suresh > > > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Vijayendra Grampurohit < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Suresh > > > > > > Can you tell us more about the division of the project into sub > modules? It would be helpful in writing the proposal. > > > > > > Regards > > > Vijayendra > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Vijayendra Grampurohit < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > @Shameera : It would be better if we come up with new javascript > client in AngularJS instead of wraping exiting javaScript client as > angular service. We faced lot of issues last time doing this. Do you > remember? > > > > > > Currently I am looking into Thrift API. > > > > > > Can we have a concrete plan on > > > 1) Integrating different modules. For this we have to rewrite the > Javascript API in Angularjs. > > > 2) writing thrift client in Angularjs > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > Vijayendra > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Supun, > > > > > > Since there are no further comments on this thread, I would encourage > you to start working on the GSoC proposal. Just start a proposal on google > melegenge portal, make it publicly readable and share it on the dev list > for comments. > > > > > > Suresh > > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Supun for taking the initiative. I echo Shameera that this > seem to be a good working stop-gap strategy. But I am not knowledgable > enough to judge on this topic and would like to listen critical feedback > from others. > > > > > > > > Suresh > > > > > > > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Shameera Rathnayaka < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi Supun, > > > >> > > > >> This is great, I too found this $scope.apply()[1] would solve our > issue . And i was going to follow this[2] and come up with a sample demo > but you already have done it :) (didn't check it, will do). For now we can > wrap exiting javaScript client as angular service and use it inside the > angular. But for long run It would be good to use Thrift generated JS > client instead exiting JS client. @Sanchit and all WDYT? > > > >> > > > >> [1] > https://github.com/angular/angular.js/wiki/When-to-use-$scope.$apply%28%29 > > > >> [2] http://jimhoskins.com/2012/12/17/angularjs-and-apply.html > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Thanks, > > > >> Shameera. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Supun Nakandala < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > > > >> > > > >> I was able to do successful POC on the $subject (the source code is > available at [1]). I implemented a simple thrift API (thrift descriptor > [2]) for echo function. The server side was implemented in java and for the > client side I used javascript. > > > >> > > > >> Important points WRT to thrift > > > >> ->Thrift javascript client can be used only against a http > server. So I wrapped the EchoServiceHandler.java[3] inside > EchoServlet.java[4] and deployed in tomcat server. > > > >> ->Thrift client sdk currently supports only AJAX based > communication. > > > >> > > > >> Important points WRT to thrift client and angular integration > > > >> ->Thrift js client can be used for the communication with the > server within angular. But the problem is, since thrift client is not part > of angular, when we do the ajax communication and update the model the > changes will not be updated in the DOM. The reason is angular is not aware > of the events triggered outside of the framework. But this can be overcome > by wrapping thrift client inside an angular service and using promises in > angular to notify the success of ajax calls and then manually updating the > DOM. > > > >> > > > >> The thrift client that I created for this service can be found > at[5]. This thrift client is wrapped inside this angular service[6] and > that service is used in controller [7]. I have also attached screen shots > of the demo. > > > >> > > > >> Hope Shameera, Sanchit, Viknes or Vijayendra can provide feedback > on this POC and evaluate whether this POC is sound enough to guaranty that > web based experiment builder can be integrated with the thrift client sdk. > > > >> > > > >> Thank you. > > > >> Supun Nakandala > > > >> > > > >> [1] - https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service > > > >> [2] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/Echo.thrift > > > >> [3] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/src/echo/EchoServiceHandler.java > > > >> [4] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/src/echo/EchoServlet.java > > > >> [5] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/WebContent/Web/app/lib/echo_service/echo_client.js > > > >> > > > >> [6] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/WebContent/Web/app/js/services.js > > > >> > > > >> [7] - > https://github.com/scnakandala/echo_service/blob/master/WebContent/Web/app/js/controllers.js > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Best Regards, > > > >> Shameera Rathnayaka. > > > >> > > > >> email: shameera AT apache.org , shameerainfo AT gmail.com > > > >> Blog : http://shameerarathnayaka.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Thank you Supun Nakandala Dept. Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa
