Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
Currently the Management Console URLs are not really REST-ful:
> To get a list of bundles you access /system/console/list. This should rather be /system/console/bundles.
> To get bundle details the URL is /system/console/bundledetails with a request property naming the bundle whose details are to be returned. This should rather be /system/console/bundles/x where x is the bundleID or some other identification of the bundle to access
> To start (or stop or uninstall) a bundle a request to /system/console with an action parameter and a bundleId parameter is POSTed to the console. This should rather use the bundle URL - /system/console/bundles/x as above - and an action parameter denoting the action.
> It should be possible to directly access a certain configuration by URL such as /system/console/configurations/<pid> where <pid> is the PID of the configuration or access /system/console/configurations to get all configurations.
> etc.
As a corollary to these changes the current interfaces Action and Render should be dropped and replaced by the venerable Servlet interface. This makes implementation of the URLs easier. On the downside, this might create big servlets for the HTML rendering, which might be solved by using helper classes.
The servlets will need to be registered as OSGi services with appropriate service registration properties. The Console will only pick up servlets registered with the correct property settings.