[CAUSEWAY-3619] SPI for the GridSystemServiceBootstrap to provide custom layouts.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Resolved
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-RC3
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Andi Huber
• Reporter: Andi Huber
• Created: 29/Sep/23 08:48
• Updated: 01/Oct/23 13:27
• Resolved: 29/Sep/23 09:42

Description

Devs can override the GridSystemServiceBootstrap to customize behavior, sure. However, this is a heavy weight service with quite some dependencies.

Idea is to create a simple SPI to customize layout fallback behavior on a per class basis.

public static interface FallbackLayoutDataSource {
        /**
         * Implementing service beans may provide custom defaults (for specific types) if required.<br>
         * Implementing service beans may chose to be indifferent by returning an empty {@link Try}.
         */
        Try<String> tryLoadAsStringUtf8(Class<?> domainClass);
    }

Easy to provide as Spring managed bean.