About "ROO-318: Add Strategy nature to Entity/Finder"

[jmvivo]

We are so interesting in the task ROO-318: Add Strategy nature to Entity/Finder.

Is there any schedule or analysis about this?

Thanks

[Ben Alex]

Not currently scheduled.

[eruiz]

Ben, we are interested to apply the Strategy pattern to scaffold process. We think it is the best way to customize the view without having to customize related add-ons. For example, we could change the templating technology to SiteMesh without having to customize the addon-web-mvc-controller.

In general, applying the Strategy pattern to add-on dependency will provide Roo with an easier way to decouple add-ons to add third-party add-ons without losing the benefits of base add-ons.

Ben, we can contribute this new feature, just we and you have to agree the technical design. Let us know your thougths.

[Ben Alex]

We agree the strategy pattern is appropriate for third party add-ons to augment/customise the output of the base add-ons. Stefan's rework in MVC is trying to incorporate this, and ROO-318 represents the request for entity services more generally. You'll see an increasing number of Roo add-ons supporting this in the future. We welcome a patch against current SVN trunk for ROO-318 if this is of interest. We can use it as a starting point to see what kind of behaviour you want to have injectable and go from there.

[eruiz]

That's sound really good. I have increased our internal priority for this issue, so we will attach the patch to ROO-318 asap.

[jmvivo]

Hi Ben,

We've attached or proposal to ROO-318. Lets us to know your thoughts.

Regards.
Chema.

[eruiz]

Ben, I think our proposal is outdated after the OSGi refactoring (http://jira.springframework.org/browse/ROO-728) please review the proposal documents and if the approach is ok for you we can refactor it to use new OSGi infraestructure