+1 , Thanks & Regards -- Deepak Dixit www.hotwaxsystems.com www.hotwax.co
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Sakke Ferraris <sa...@ferrasys.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just joined, and I'd like to help on this. > > BR, Sakke Ferraris > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: James Yong [mailto:jamesy...@apache.org] > Skickat: den 18 juli 2017 10:45 > Till: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Ämne: Re: [Proposal] moving all data in applications to the data-model > component > > +1 > > Regards, > James Yong > > On 2017-07-14 17:59 (+0800), Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Data loading in OFBiz is quite fragile. A small change could crash the > > system and finding out the reason can be difficult. I really felt the > > pain of this when trying to disentangle the framework from data > > dependencies on plugins [1]. > > > > I've been thinking about a solution to reduce fragility, and here are > > my thoughts: > > - The less data files the better. > > - The less data the better. > > - The less distance (e.g. same directory) between data files the better. > > - No circular dependencies (file dependencies should be like a tree). > > - Fail fast [2]. > > > > Therefore, I suggest the following action points: > > - Create a directory structure similar to [3] in the datamodel component. > > - For any data that two or more files depend on, immediately move it > > to the common-<reader>.xml file. > > - For any data that does not belong to any domain (e.g. marketing, > > content, etc ..) move it to the common-<reader>.xml. > > - Maintain a strict dependency hierarchy of demo -> seed -> seed-initial. > > - Gradually and carefully move data from all applications to the > > datamodel component as per above guidelines. > > - Cleanup and refactor the data as we move it including any tests that > > depend on it. > > > > What do you think of this proposal? Does it sound reasonable? Also > > given the size of what I'm proposing I think we need multiple people > > to work on this. So is anyone interested in taking part in this > > initiative? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Taher Alkhateeb > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9322 > > [2] > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a18b5d4086a07ff34a0cb950999e8f8e8 > > 69a6aa7efa2fc866a75a7b6@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E > > [3] directory structure: > > data/ > > ├── demo > > │ ├── accounting-demo.xml > > │ ├── common-demo.xml > > │ ├── content-demo.xml > > │ ├── humanres-demo.xml > > │ ├── manufacturing-demo.xml > > │ ├── marketing-demo.xml > > │ ├── order-demo.xml > > │ ├── party-demo.xml > > │ ├── product-demo.xml > > │ ├── shipment-demo.xml > > │ └── workeffort-demo.xml > > ├── seed > > │ ├── accounting-seed.xml > > │ ├── common-seed.xml > > │ ├── content-seed.xml > > │ ├── humanres-seed.xml > > │ ├── manufacturing-seed.xml > > │ ├── marketing-seed.xml > > │ ├── order-seed.xml > > │ ├── party-seed.xml > > │ ├── product-seed.xml > > │ ├── shipment-seed.xml > > │ └── workeffort-seed.xml > > └── seed-initial > > ├── accounting-seed-initial.xml > > ├── common-seed-initial.xml > > ├── content-seed-initial.xml > > ├── humanres-seed-initial.xml > > ├── manufacturing-seed-initial.xml > > ├── marketing-seed-initial.xml > > ├── order-seed-initial.xml > > ├── party-seed-initial.xml > > ├── product-seed-initial.xml > > ├── shipment-seed-initial.xml > > └── workeffort-seed-initial.xml > > >
