We talked about that on IRC but it is better to have it here :) On Thursday 03 July 2008 06:26:42 pm Michael DeHaan wrote: > Comments on Denis's work on funcweb... > > Looks like it's moving along nicely. Thanks :) > > 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. > > ====== Not difficult to be implemented , the minion execution part will use glob thing instead of one machine . Also the TextField can be some autocompletion field like google's search . Tg has lots of these :) > > 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 > > ] > > ====== ++ Vertical layout will be better , it will give us the chance to display all that data more efficiently . > -- 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. Should we add some keyword to self describing API, or just guess the output and parse it ? > -- 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 :) No problem someone should do it :) > -- 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. Cool > -- 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. Yep sounds interesting to me :) > > If anyone else wants to look at funcweb, makkalot's branch is > git://github.com/makkalot/func.git (branch name: makkalot_extreme) > > --Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Func-list mailing list > Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
