[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] jderose 017-2 Giant webui patch take 2

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitri Pal wrote:
> Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
>> Okay, finally here is the revised webui patch.  Since the last version,
>> I:
>>
>>  * Ported to various API changed between wehjit 0.0.1 and 0.1.0
>>
>>  * Removed the session.py stuff, which will be in a separate patch
>>
>>  * Added the plugin browser to help developers inspect the plugins
>>
>> The webui is still in a similar "dumb" state till I extend various
>> meta-data in ipalib, which I will work on this week and will quickly get
>> the UI into a more impressive state.  I just can't let this patch get
>> any larger... stop the madness!  ;)  There currently isn't a top-level
>> webui-page at /ipa/ui, but pages exist for each command plugin,
>> i.e., /ipa/ui/user_add
>>
>> This patch is big, but tries to be non-intrusive: the new webui stuff
>> only runs from the new lite-server.py script, not for the installed
>> version running under Apache.  As far as I know, no existing
>> functionality is disrupted by this patch.  After making the meta-data
>> changes, I will enable the new functionality under Apache also.
>>
>> I hope everyone will find the plugin-browser quite helpful.  To run it,
>> launch lite-server.py like this:
>>
>>   ./lite-server.py
>>
>> And then point your browser to:
>>
>>   http://127.0.0.1:8888/ipa/ui/Command
>>
>> All plugins in all namespaces are available in the browser, but details
>> are currently only available for the Command and Object namespaces.  I
>> will also soon add an easy way to render the plugin browser to static
>> pages to put on freeipa.org.
>>
>> This patch requires python-wehjit and python-assets, which are in
>> Fedora12 and rawhide.  Or you can install from tarballs here:
>>
>>   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/assets/current/
>>
>>   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/wehjit/current/
>>
>> A couple of weekends ago I also packaged assets and wehjit for
>> Debian/Ubuntu.  Karmic packages are available in my PPA:
>>
>>   https://launchpad.net/~jderose/+archive/ppa
>>
>> Sorry the patch is so large, subsequent ones wont be.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> Jason,
> 
> The patch removes 4300 lines and adds 1000. Is this correct or we are
> missing something?
>

The majority of that 4300 is a single file, mootools-core.js. I'm 
guessing he is planning to use a different javascript toolkit.

rob
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