On 16/01/20 17:37, Misagh Moayyed wrote: > Hey Team, > > Wanted to share a couple of ideas with you to see if they may be worth > following up with JIRAs and PRs:
Hi Misagh, thanks for sharing your ideas! > - While working on Syncope, often times I end up making a change in the admin > console (i.e. adding a configuration parameter), and then I export/download > the configuration XML, pick out the new changes from the saved XML file to > put into my own version of the MasterContent.xml. This works great with one > small issue and that is, I have to download and the save file. It would be > more comfortable if Syncope offered a way to just view the XML configuration > with an export option separately. Nice one, and quite simple to implement, I would say... > - Similarly, it would be even better if I the admin console allowed one to > view the XML configuration of an individual item. For example, I would be > interested in seeing the XML representation of the new configuration > parameter I added in the admin console, or it might be a user object, group, > etc. This is more complex, as it requires some logic to bind high-level objects (as "Configuration Parameters") down to actual database tables - in this case it would be CPlainAttr and its relationships, e.g. SyncopeSchema, PlainSchema, CPlainAttr, CPlainAttrValue and CPlainAttrUniqueValue. Such logic can leverage OpenJPA's metadata information of course - still, not trivial. Regards. -- Francesco Chicchiriccò Tirasa - Open Source Excellence http://www.tirasa.net/ Member at The Apache Software Foundation Syncope, Cocoon, Olingo, CXF, OpenJPA, PonyMail http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
