[ACE-513] Improve workspace API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Component/s: Client Repository
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: J.W. Janssen
• Created: 19/Mar/15 14:21
• Updated: 20/Mar/15 10:29

Description

The current workspace API has a couple of drawbacks that makes it less efficient when used in scripts. For example, the create methods (c*) do not all return the created repository object, needing a lookup if you want to do other stuff with that repository object after creation.

A list of proposed changes:

• let the create methods return the created object;
• the da method should accept an ArtifactObject instead of an RepositoryObject (conform the other delete methods);
• lr and lrp both do the same thing: list resource processors. Remove lr in favour of lrp;
• expose the createArtifact, createFeature, etc from WorkspaceImpl as this makes it easier to read in scripts (the shorthand versions are useful when working directly in gogo shell).

Any thoughts, remarks?