Re: Drag & drop editor

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 06:30:30 -0700
I agree with Thomas, if done right it would be useful even for the most advanced users, to make the initial topology and see what configuration is desired/required. 


A wishlist feature from me is to have a live YAML model which is 
*bi-directional*.  That actually shouldn't be too hard.  (The hardest 
part would be preserving comments in YAML; our Java Snake YAML includes 
this in the parse but not sure if our JS YAML does this.  But for a V1 
we could lose comments.)



I'm assuming also in the V1 GUI that we don't target policies and 
enrichers and initializers -- just config and children and locations.


--A


On 29/06/2015 14:17, Thomas Bouron wrote:

Hi Martin.

Thanks for you feedback. As you pointed out, this tool is mainly focused on
beginners and non-tech people for them to quickly create blueprints (and
learn how to) without any prior knowledge. I should have mentioned the
targeted audience within my previous mail.

Now, that raises the question: is it the direction we want to go to? I'm
the one that initiated this thread so for me, it's obviously a big yes and
will act. The cool thing is that it will play the role of a built-in
tutorial, even for tech people.

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 at 10:36 Martin Harris <[email protected]>
wrote:


+1

Whilst I can't see this being used by someone who's experienced with
creating YAML blueprints, I think it would add a great 'wow factor' to
product demos. It'd also be a great way for someone new to Brooklyn to
learn how to compose YAML blueprints by building something using an
intuitive drag-and-drop interface, and watching how the corresponding YAML
is built up. Folks will probably eventually switch to just writing YAML
directly, but this would be a key tool in that crucial initial phase where
someone is just getting to know about the various Brooklyn concepts

Cheers

M

On 25 June 2015 at 17:37, Thomas Bouron <[email protected]>
wrote:


Hi devs.

I'm sure it happens to you all the time to jump here (
https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/learnmore/catalog/index.html) to
check which entities are available along with theirs config keys,

sensors,

etc. Would it be great to have some sort of nice GUI editor to compose
blueprints on the fly, directly from Brooklyn which would include

entities

shipped with Brooklyn + your own Brooklyn catalog?

Following this idea, I took the liberty to put a quick wireframe /

workflow

of how I see this editor working. It's available here:



https://www.fluidui.com/editor/live/preview/p_VTRECWVgxa6xOSKclTsTSI0BU5kNzz98.1435239663172

To explain a bit more in details, the preview is interactive. You can

click

on the icon on the top right to display the clickable elements and notes.
Basically, we start with a "Same server Entity", then a "Vanilla Software
Process", then you can go down to the configuration. You can also switch
between the WYSIWYG and YAML views. I think we should probably start

with a

one way synchronisation (meaning editor -> YAML) because a two way seems
really complicated. One other alternative would be to have a split screen
between editor and generated YAML but that raise the question of how to
present this editor? Doing a split screen won't fit within a modal.
Finally, the green and red colours are just a visual way to inform the

user

that this particular entity is properly configured / valid or not.

This is just an example, I cannot do the entire thing with my free

FluidUI

account (allowed to do only 10 screens) but hopefully, it should give

you a

good overview.

Questions / suggestions / comments are more than welcome!

Best.
--
Thomas

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