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Revision as of 10:07, 9 February 2017

Purpose

In the context of the FEEP, a development effort has been proposed for a launch configuration template mechanism.

Currently there is no share parameters between launch configurations or to change several parameters at once. The idea is to let the user define Launch Configuration Templates that behave like cookie cutters. A configuration can be based on a template, which seeds attributes in the configuration with the settings specified in the template. Once a configuration has been created, the user can override any initial settings from the template. The user can also modify the template and push changes out to the configurations based on it. A configuration maintains a backpointer to its template, but is a complete standalone configuration than can be launched, exported, shared, etc.

Initial work and analysis has already been documented on the wiki and in bug 41353.

The goal of this page is to share propositions with the community about the launch configuration template mechanism.

Proposition [WIP]

Based on the already existing analysis on the wiki and in the bug 41353, the proposition is the following:

UI [WIP]

A new icon will be available in the action bar on the left side of the window. It will allow to create a new template in the selected category.

Run Configurations New Template Icon.png


When a configuration is selected in the left panel, a right-click opens a menu. This menu will be updated with new entries:

  • New configuration: replace the existing New entry.
  • New template: allows to create a new template in the containing category.
  • Reset with template values: reset the fields of the selected configuration with the values from the template. This item will be grayed if no template has been set for the selected configuration.

Configuration Item Menu Before After.png


When a category is selected in the left panel, a right-click opens a menu. This menu will be updated with new entries:

  • New configuration: replace the existing New entry.
  • New template: allows to create a new template in the selected category.

Configuration Category Menu Before After.png


The UI for a new template is the following. It is the same than the configurations for which the template is defined. The user set all attributes he wants, like he did for a configuration. The Run button is disabled because the user can't launch a template, only configurations.

File:New Template v2.png


When a template is selected in the left panel, a right-click opens a menu. This new menu will be created with new entries:

  • New configuration: replace the existing New entry.
  • New template: allows to create a new template in the selected category.
  • Duplicate: duplicate the selected template.
  • Delete: delete the selected template.
  • Apply template to all configurations: apply the values of the selected template to all existing configuration of the containing category. This item will be grayed if no applicable configuration exists for the selected template.

Template Item Menu Before After.png


A new tab named Template will be available for configurations. This tab allows to select an existing template for an existing configuration.

Configuration New Template Tab.png


When a configuration is associated to a template, then the UI indicates which attributes comes from the template and which attributes have been modified by the user.

Here is a configuration with no attributes modified:

Configuration With Template Modified.png

Then, the same configuration with modified attributes:

Configuration With Template.png

API [WIP]

API will added to the following interfaces to support launch configuration templates

ILaunchConfigurationType

  • Get all templates of this type
  • Create a new working copy based on a given template

ILaunchConfigurationWorkingCopy

  • Set whether a configuration is a template
  • Set the template a configuration is based on (backpointer)
  • Copy attributes from a configuration into the working copy

ILaunchConfiguration

  • Return whether a configuration is a template
  • Get the template a configuration is based on (backpointer, may be null)
  • Get all configurations a template is associated with
  • Return whether an attribute of the configuration has been modified or comes from the template

AbstractLaunchConfigurationTab

  • A new method to validate templates. The default implementation will not validate templates (as they will usually have sparse/incomplete information that would be invalid). Clients can provide an implementation of the new method to perform template validation as needed.

Misc

  • Default color to associate to widgets linked with attributes with values from the template

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