Hi all,

I do agree with Hans about the idea of putting plugin's samples together docs 
in a subdirectory of the plugin module. If you agree I can start implementing 
this way the samples for Enhanced JSON Output.

I can also modify the build procedure so that they can be packaged all together 
in a samples directory where each plugin's samples are separated by a specific 
subdirectory. 

Let me know what you think

Sergio Ramazzina
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> Il giorno 25 gen 2021, alle ore 19:58, Bart Maertens <[email protected]> 
> ha scritto:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Why not aim for the best of both worlds? Imho, samples are similar to docs:
> each action and transform plugin should come with at least one sample
> workflow or pipeline that shows its functionality with as few other actions
> or transforms as possible.
> We can bundle those into a 'samples' project, and add more complex example
> workflows and pipelines that show users how to work in more complex
> situations, implement a number of sample design patterns etc
> 
> Regards,
> Bart
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:16 AM Hans Van Akelyen <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Sergio,
>> 
>> So I think there are a couple things we should consider. The simplest
>> approach will be to, as you suggested, create a folder in static or some
>> other location and dump all our samples in there. Another idea that has
>> come up here and there but should be discussed is to look at the samples in
>> the same way we are doing our docs, create a sample folder per plugin. This
>> gives us a clear overview which plugins have samples and in the future we
>> could add extra checks or warnings to our build process to indicate the
>> quality of a plugin. For now we are also planning to ship all our
>> transforms and actions in our distribution release, but at the speed our
>> set of tools is growing we will have to start choosing at some point in
>> time and this could mean that samples break.
>> 
>> Creating samples for each plugin will require a bit more work/thinking as
>> we need something "smart" to combine all these samples into an actual
>> sample project that is included in our release. But my personal preference
>> would be to look at something like this. And apply the same logic to our
>> integration tests.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Hans
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:03 PM Sergio Ramazzina (SERASOFT) <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ciao Hoppers,
>>> 
>>> 'm here to start a discussion around how we can create a sample
>>> distribution because I was preparing samples for my Enchanced JSON
>>> Output but I discovered that I was unaware about where I can put them in
>>> our project's codebase structure. Hans told me in our dev chat that
>>> there isn't any rule or guideline on how to do that and proposed me to
>>> start a discussion in the dev list to collect ideas on how to do that so
>>> here I am.
>>> 
>>> As Matt said in one of our discussions, a good idea could be to generate
>>> a samples project and put the project's directory  our codebase. I agree
>>> on that. For example under the assembly/static module, in resouce folder
>>> we could create a new folder named samples and put the project there.
>>> Then we can include it  hop's application archive for distribution.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas comments on this topic?
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Sergio
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>> 

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