Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

--On 06 August 2009 00:54 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
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 wrote:

> > 1) The build.xml menu isn't quite in sync with the target names -
> > grouper vs grouperJarAndConf
>
> I changed grouperJarAndConf to grouper
Good
> > 2) The build.xml doesn't actually compile anything or copy property
> > files to 'classes'. I assume Eclipse is doing this for you.
>
> Right, this is the low-build dev env, you compile in eclipse, and you are
> all good.  If you install JavaRebel, then you do not need to restart
> tomcat very often.  I did add a "dist" target to build a war file for a
> non-dev deployment.
I still think it is nice to have 'complete' build scripts - developers have 
different setups. Not important for now.
> > 3) I had to look at the video to figure out the url - a top level index
> > file which redirects would be useful.
>
> Done
Good
> > 4) When you 'Change location' you are listing all groups and not
> > actually filtering on what the user has typed.
>
> Done, though the current API method searches in group name, not display
> name, we should add another api method for 1.5
Should be doable through the existing query interface - but works pretty 
well. Long group names do start to wrap awkwardly...
> > When I get a chance I'll try and get it to run in the current UI. Going
> > forward I can see us using more of this approach, but I would like to
> > retain some of the flexibility for choosing custom templates etc. Also,
> > I can see it being pragmatic to incrementally change the current UI
> > rather than attempt a complete rewrite in one go. I haven't looked at
> > the  code in
> > any great detail but I'm sure we can come up with something that suits
> > us both.
>
> Sounds good.  I would like to see some example requirements for UI
> customizations to see what the options for this sort of thing...  maybe
> there is a simpler way to do this...
I'll have a look at what I have done in the past and we can canvas the dev 
list. I'm pretty sure that we can make it possible to directly specify the 
'preferred' template but have a mechanism which allows a site to override 
it. That way the out-of-the box UI would be much more 'defined'
> Thanks!
>
> Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing