On 29 Mar 2012, at 15:06, Paul Sharples wrote:

> On 29/03/2012 15:03, Scott Wilson wrote:
>> On 29 Mar 2012, at 14:52, Paul Sharples wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29/03/2012 14:39, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>>> On 29 March 2012 14:31, Scott Wilson<[email protected]>   
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We've now removed the UI client from trunk, the only UI now is a 
>>>>> HTML-only demo that lets you preview widgets (thanks Ross for the 
>>>>> improvements to this - I like the filter especially!)
>>>> I'd like to turn the navigation part into a widget, that shouldn't be
>>>> hard the way it is currently implemented. Just need to find a little
>>>> time to do it. This is *not* a blocker though. It is one more step
>>>> towards extracting all the UI functionality out of core.
>>>> 
>>>>> Widgets
>>>>> ======
>>>>> Drop into /deploy folder, or use REST API. The only function not 
>>>>> supported outside of the REST API is deleting widgets.
>>>> So how do we delete a widget in a running instance of Wookie? Seems
>>>> like a necessary feature (but not a blocker).
>>> I presume you'd use the RESTAPI - see 
>>> org.apache.wookie.tests.functional.WidgetControllerTest for an example.
>> To be honest I can't think of another way to do it. You could watch the 
>> unpacked widget folder, and if it vanishes trigger a delete, but that 
>> bothers me a bit as it may not be the intention, and deleting widgets has 
>> lots of side-effects (deleting related instances, preferences).
> 
> Agreed, I don't think thats a good way to go.

Should I add it to the connector? 

Or perhaps we could enable/disable widgets or make them invisible or similar?

> 
>> 
>>>>> The question I have is: is this sufficient to consider WOOKIE-262 
>>>>> completed?
>>>> I'm happy to close it and add a new lower priority issue on the delete
>>>> widget requirement above. Also happy to lower the priority with the
>>>> delete widget requirement remaining in the original issue.
>>> I guess this probably covers it.  If we find anything else we've missed 
>>> then we can open a new issue for it (more specific)
>>> The only other thing is that WOOKIE-262 also mentions a command line 
>>> management utility (is this a provided .bat and .sh script?)
>> That was the original intention - but maybe thats not needed now?
> 
> We could just open a new issue for it and give it a lower priority.
> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>>>> If so, I'll get on with sorting out the remaining documentation so I can 
>>>>> close WOOKIE-19&   WOOKIE-15.
>>>> This email is a good start for FAQ documentation.
>>>> 
>>>> Ross
>>>> 
>> 
> 

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