Comments on Denis's work on funcweb...
Looks like it's moving along nicely.
A few comments:
-- in general, this is very nice stuff, thanks!
-- the echo "test' module has some very nice widgets in it, I especially
like the hash/list input support. Excellent work on this.
-- the tooltips are also very very nice to have and querying works well.
So the big question is what else do we want to do with FuncWeb? The
things I would like to see worked on, I think, are, in order:
-- One of the interesting uses of Func is to address multiple minions at
the same time, so having a text entry field at the top to be able to
enter in the "hostname" glob as with the command line would be very
useful. This may change the way the "minons" view works. For
instance, I would want to be able to go to one page/link and see all my
minions, and then I might also want to be able to type in a glob into
the text field and see which ones match. This means that when I run a
command I would then we running that command against multiple hosts
using Func, so when we show output, we can nicely seperate the output by
each individual hosts. The individual methods that the user could
browse could be queried from any one of the minions specifically, or we
could just gather the data from a locally running funcd.
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I think the new GUI might end up looking like this (in ASCII)
Hostname Pattern: ______________________________
Method (Click the name in the list of methods which is dynamically
populated from the first host shown in the list)
[
service yumcmd service etc (all hyperlinks)
]
Options:
[
dynamically populated from when you select a method
]
[ GO BUTTON ]
[
Results Pane
]
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So basically this would make things more vertically scrolling than
horizontal. All the cool widget stuff could still be used as is, and
we just teach it to be more about multi-machine operation.
-- I think it would be extremely nice to add some shiny rendering for
the output. For instance, the output comes back as a hash of hostnames
and the values
for each hostname, so we could format this and perhaps render the reset
of the data using some nice TurboGears widgets? Screen space is
limited, so we may have to be clever with this.
-- Make it use async API mode that pleple just implemented so long
running operations can work better. Above we would have already done
the multiple system support so this should just be some API changes for
the most part.
-- We'll want to instrument the info on the remaining methods so they
show up in FuncWeb. This is boring work though so I'd prefer to get the
exciting core stuff done first :)
-- It's possible using the funcd minion module called "certmaster" to
teach FuncWeb to sign incoming CSR requests that have not yet been
signed. This way we can
how what needs to be signed. This could be surfaced in the UI a bit
more prominetly than the rest of the list.
-- When clicking on a method that does not take any arguments, the "Run
method" link should probably be a button
-- "Submit Query" can just be changed to "Submit" because sometimes the
actions are not so much queries as commands
Sound good? I'd say that's probably a good list of items to work on
after getting funcweb packaged.
If anyone else wants to look at funcweb, makkalot's branch is
git://github.com/makkalot/func.git (branch name: makkalot_extreme)
--Michael
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