[OFBIZ-9350] Deprecate Mini Lang

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk, Upcoming Branch
• Component/s: ALL APPLICATIONS, ALL COMPONENTS, ALL PLUGINS
• Labels: documentation refactoring
• Sprint: OFBiz Community Day (Feb 2020), OFBiz Community Day (May 2020), OFBiz Community Day (Aug 2020)
• Assignee: Nicolas Malin
• Reporter: Michael Brohl
• Created: 07/May/17 16:55
• Updated: 11/Feb/23 08:29

Description

According to the proposal thread in [1] we decided to deprecate mini lang.

This issue tracks the next steps proposed in the aformentioned thread, namely:

1. create a Wiki page for the documentation and description of the migration process and how mini lang will be replaced.

2. prominently state in the Wiki that minilang will be deprecated, e.g. in [2]

3. put deprecation tags in the corresponding code

4. kindly ask contributors with open patches written in mini lang to replace them by Groovy code [3]

5. start an initiative to replace existing mini lang code with Groovy code where applicable. This needs some more planning and discussion which parts we'll like to replace with Groovy code and which parts will better be replaced by some kind of DSL. A good starting point can be [4][5][6].

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/253b41060a295b8ab68bc78763cc129fc74b712cf776f8716022097f@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Mini+Language+-+minilang+-+simple-method+-+Reference
[3] does anyone know a way to batch comment Jira issues like it is possible in Redmine?
[4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Groovy+DSL+for+OFBiz+business+logic
[5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Tutorial+-+A+Beginners+Development+Guide
[6] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Coding+Conventions

Issue Links

• incorporates: OFBIZ-11232 Migrate Minilang tests to Groovy
• relates to: OFBIZ-8408 Convert existing CRUD services into entity-auto
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Sub-Tasks

• Convert RateServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert AcctgAdminServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert AgreementServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert OrderServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Patch Available
• Convert BudgetServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert InvoiceServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CatalogServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CommonPermissionServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CategoryContentServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CategoryServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert QuoteServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert DimensionServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert FactServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CommunicationEventServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ProductServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert Thesaurus services in CommonServices.xml from mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ContactMechServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert PartyContactMechServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert PartyInvitationServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert PartyServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert party/LookupServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert setContentStatus service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert deactivateAllContentRoles service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updateSingleContentPurpose service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createTextAndUploadedContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert findAssocContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createEmailContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updateEmailContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createDownloadContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updateDownloadContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createSimpleTextContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updateSimpleTextContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Remove createTopic service (unused): Closed
• Convert createContentFromDataResource service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createCommContentDataResource service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Patch Available
• Convert updateCommContentDataResource service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createCommEventContentAssoc service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getDataResource service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getContentAndDataResource service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createArticleContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createMissingCategoryContentAltUrlInline service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Patch Available
• Convert createMissingContentAltUrls service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Patch Available
• Convert createContentAlternativeUrl service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert indexContentKeywords service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert deleteContentKeywords service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert forceIndexContentKeywords service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getSubSubContentWithPermCheck service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getSubContentWithPermCheck service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert ProductionRunServices.xml file from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert CommonServices.xml from mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert AccountServices.xml from mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert PartyServices.xml mini-lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert PartyPermissionServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ProductContentServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ProductFeatureServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert OrderReturnService mini-lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert FixedAssetMaintServices.xml to groovy: Patch Available
• Convert FixedAssetMaintTests.xml to groovy: Closed
• Convert ContentPermissionServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ProductStoreServices.xml mini-lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert OrderDeliveryServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ShipmentServices.xml from minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ProductConfigItemContentServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ShipmentReceiptServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert DataServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert createPayment service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updatePayment service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentApplication service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert setPaymentStatus service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert quickSendPayment service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentAndApplication service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getInvoicePaymentInfoList service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getInvoicePaymentInfoListByDueDateOffset service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert voidPayment service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getPaymentRunningTotal service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert cancelPaymentBatch service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentAndPaymentGroupForInvoices service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentAndApplicationForParty service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createFinAccoutnTransFromPayment service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentGroupAndMember service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert cancelCheckRunPayments service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getPayments service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert getPaymentGroupReconciliationId service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert checkAndCreateBatchForValidPayments service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert massChangePaymentStatus service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentFromOrder service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createMatchingPaymentApplication service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createPaymentContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert updatePaymentContent service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert createInvoiceItemPayrol service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert LeadServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert PriceServices.xml minilang to groovy: Reopened
• Convert InventoryIssueServices minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CostServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert BlogServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert CheckoutServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ShoppingListServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert ImageManagementServices.xml minilang to groovy: Closed
• Convert EntitySyncServices.xml mini-lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert checkStatusCustRequest from mini-lang to groovy: In Progress
• Convert RoutingServices.xml mini-lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert InventoryReserveServices.xml mini lang to groovy: In Progress
• Convert EmailServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert SystemInfoServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert SetupEvents.xml mini lang to groovy: Open
• Convert InventoryServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Patch Available
• Convert ProjectServices.xml to groovy: Open
• Convert ProjectSimpleEvents.xml to groovy: Open
• Convert ProjectPermissionServices.xml to groovy: Open
• Convert createInvoice service from mini-lang to groovy DSL: Patch Available
• Convert SubscriptionServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed
• Convert BlogServices.xml mini lang to groovy DSL: Closed
• Convert SupplierProductServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert PromoServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert StorageServices.xml mini-lang to groovyDSL: Closed
• Convert RequirementServices.xml mini lang to groovy: Closed