Re: [dtp-pmc] Requesting permission to make change for BZ 140493

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+1

Regards,
John Graham
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
http://dataplat.blogspot.com/



                                                                           
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Also note that this is additive and will not affect existing adopters.
Forgot to mention that.

Thanks.
--Fitz

Brian Fitzpatrick
Senior Software Engineer/DTP Committer
Sybase, Inc.

                                                                           
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Hi all...

There has been a request (BZ 140493) out from the DTP community for a while
to allow adopters to override the static text associated with a driver
template. The individuals who made the request recently attached a patch to
their request, which made us look a little closer at the issue. Though
their patch did solve their problem, it was a little limited in scope and
we reworked it to allow more flexibility. They have taken a look at our
revamped solution and it will work for them.

The revamped solution allows adopters to do the following:

       * override any of the values for a driver template, including:
               name
               description
               parentCategory
               jarList
               createDefault
               emptyJarListIsOK
       * override any of the values for a property in a driver template,
including:
               name
               description
               value
               visible
               example
               required
               customPropertyDescriptor
               category
       * remove a property from a driver template

The reasons this change is compelling is that an adopter (say Sybase for
example) could override the template for the Sybase ASA enablement
contribution to include a plug-in wrapped path to a particular jar file and
indicate that the template should have a default driver definition created
at startup if it doesn't already exist. This would ensure that a driver was
ready to go for the Sybase ASA product right out of the box and the user
wouldn't have to do any further configuration of the driver, simply create
a new Sybase ASA profile and they're off to the races.

We would like to deliver this for DTP 1.5 unless there are any objections.

Thanks for your time.

--Fitz

Brian Fitzpatrick
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