On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeol...@opengeo.org>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The subject is kind of an oxymoron but I am tasked with continuing on some
> of the workspace local / virtual service configuration work. The last chunk
> of work made it possible to configure services separately per workspace.
> The next chunk involves making the global config configurable per workspace.
>
> Now, one has to ask the question if this makes sense at all, since many of
> the options are indeed global, and would not / could not be configured
> local to a workspace. For instance, the jai settings. But some settings
> might be configurable per workspace, like contact info, verbose exception
> reporting, etc... so i wanted to start some discussion to try and get an
> idea on how to proceed.
>
> The first possibility would be to refactor the GeoServerInfo class into
> two parts, those settings that could be workspace specific, and those that
> could not. I haven't thought too much about how this would look but it wold
> be a significant change to the catalog api, meaning lots of updating of
> client code.
>
> The second possibility is to follow the same sneaky approach we use for
> the services and that is return a different GeoServerInfo object based on
> the local workspace thread local in play. The issue I see here is again the
> settings that are truly global. A possible approach here could be to wrap
> the workspace local GeoServerInfo objects in a proxy or wrapper that makes
> certain fields read only, or perhaps hides them all together. In the UI we
> could hid those fields all together.
>
> Thoughts/opinions?
>
I'd go for the split between what's really global (jai, logs) and what it
makes
sense to configure once per workspace (point of contact and the like).
I understand and agree it's going to take API changes, but it also sets a
clear
path forward for the future.
Javadocs should explain clearly who does what so that when adding a new
"global" option one can choose wheter to make it "per worskpace global"
or "universally global"
My 2 cents :)
Cheers
Andrea
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