[CAUSEWAY-1785] DomainService#menuOrder and DomainServiceLayout#menuOrder are not equivalent

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.0
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Rosco Kalis
• Created: 27/Nov/17 14:40
• Updated: 08/Jan/18 19:54
• Resolved: 22/Dec/17 15:42

Description

The Apache Isis documentation mentions that these two options are equivalent:

     * <p>
     *     Either this attribute or {@link DomainServiceLayout#menuOrder()} can be used; they are equivalent.
     *     Typically this attribute is used for services with a {@link #nature() nature} of
     *     {@link NatureOfService#DOMAIN domain} (these are not visible in the UI) whereas
     *     {@link DomainServiceLayout#menuOrder()} is used for services with a nature of
     *     {@link NatureOfService#VIEW_MENU_ONLY} (which do appear in the UI)
     * </p>

However, using DomainService#menuOrder on NatureOfService#VIEW_MENU_ONLY services did not appear to work correctly. DomainServiceLayout#menuOrder does appear to be working.

Our application was using DomainService#menuOrder in this commit, after which we changed to DomainServiceLayout#menuOrder in the next commit