[CAUSEWAY-469] Provide implementations of certain layout facets that read from a "Xxx.layout.properties" file

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: core-1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: core-1.3.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 19/Jul/13 15:50
• Updated: 25/Oct/13 08:39
• Resolved: 24/Jul/13 05:56

Description

Specifically, the two layout facets to capture are MemberOrderFacet and MemberGroupLayoutFacet (see ISIS-468).

The idea of this ticket is that information is pulled in from a separate file, sitting alongside the domain class. This makes it easier to see this layout information in one place.

And, in conjunction with ISIS-470, this would allow dynamic updates to the layout, without a recompile/redeploy.

This ticket defines the metadata informatino in an Xxx.layout.properties file. (Note that ISIS-475 takes this idea further and specifies a JSON file. This latter idea is probably to be preferred in most cases).

The format of the property file (Xxx.layout.properties) is:

###########################################

1. MemberGroupLayout
   ###########################################

memberGroupLayout.columnSpans=3,4,0,5
memberGroupLayout.left=General
memberGroupLayout.middle=Detail
memberGroupLayout.right=

###########################################

1. MemberOrder
   ###########################################

1. Properties
   memberOrder.description.sequence=1
   memberOrder.category.sequence=2
   memberOrder.complete.sequence=3

1. Properties (Detail)
   memberOrder.dueBy.name=Detail
   memberOrder.cost.name=Detail
   memberOrder.notes.name=Detail
   memberOrder.attachment.name=Detail

memberOrder.dueBy.sequence=1
memberOrder.cost.sequence=2
memberOrder.notes.sequence=3
memberOrder.attachment.sequence=4

1. Properties (Misc)
   memberOrder.versionSequence.name=Misc
   memberOrder.versionSequence.sequence=99

#Collections
memberOrder.dependencies.sequence=1
memberOrder.similarItems.sequence=2

#Actions (freestanding)
memberOrder.delete.sequence=1
memberOrder.duplicate.sequence=2

#Actions (associated with properties)
memberOrder.completed.name=complete
memberOrder.notYetCompleted.name=complete

memberOrder.completed.sequence=1
memberOrder.notYetCompleted.sequence=2

memberOrder.updateCost.name=cost

#Actions (associated with collections)
memberOrder.add.name=dependencies

memberOrder.remove.name=dependencies