proposals/componentsBasedGui

Sandbox for GUI components

Date 2010/08/01
Contact(s) Francois
Last edited
Status being discussed
Assigned to release None
Resources Available

Overview

The proposal ask for creation of a dedicated sandbox in order to work on new GUI components in order to easily build new GUIs based on GeoNetwork server module.

Objectives:

  • Create components to compose Search, Admin, Editor interface
  • Provide a default GeoNetwork UI
  • Provide developers documentation on components
  • Clean existing client code based (removing JS dependencies)
  • Improve existing server services in order to provide simple access to each module (eg. User management, System admin)

These components are written in JS and depends on:

  • OpenLayers
  • Ext.js
  • (optional) GeoExt

Sandbox name : guiwidgets

A separate GUI application is created and minor changes should occur on the server side.

Example of a GeoExt MapPanel linked to search results :

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Proposal Type

  • Type: GUI Change
  • App: GeoNetwork client
  • Module: GUI
  • Documents:
  • Email discussions:
  • Other wiki discussions:

Voting History

  • Vote proposed by Francois on 2010/08/03
  • result was
    • +1 Simon, Jeroen, Francois (non PSC members vote on IRC : Jose, Mathieu)
    • +0 Emanuele

Proposal

Sandbox content

The sandbox will be initialize with the current work:

  • The prototype of the library with documentation [1]
  • A collection of examples to illustrate each components [2]
  • A sample application [2]

[1]  http://www.opencarto.net/geonetwork/website/docsrc/build/html/dev-jsapi/index.html

[2]  http://opencarto.net/geonetwork/apps/js/GeoNetwork/examples/

[3]  http://opencarto.net/geonetwork/apps/search

The sandbox will replicate the web module and use svn:external on other modules.

Current status

Current components are:

On-going work

  • Client side
    • How to deal with i18n ?
      • trying to have one location for all GUI translation
      • XSL service which create a JS file from existing XML file
    • How to deal with role and privileges ?
  • Server side
    • admin interface
    • Change existing service without banner to try to plug them into other UI

Editor

Backwards Compatibility Issues

New libraries added

  • No library added.
  • Removed : Prototype, Sarissa, Scriptaculous, - to be continued -

Risks

Participants

  • Francois
  • Others welcomed !

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