[Registry-dev] Need to allow users to add dependencies

[Chathura C. Ekanayake]

Hi Paul,

This looks great. Are we adding it to the 0.1 release or to later versions?

I have almost completed the authentication and authorization based on 
the User Manager. But there are some improvements needed in the UM like 
the support for DataSources and in-memory HSQL database. And UM still 
does not support roles. Dimuthu is busy on Identity Solution release and 
it will take some time for her to add those features.

So what should be our plan for the Registry? I still think that we 
should have a proper admin UI for the registry from the beginning. 
Demonstrating it using the simple browse view and the current (throw 
away) edit UI would not give a good feeling to possible customers. But 
it will take some time to build such UI as we have completely stopped 
that effort for now :(

Thanks,
Chathura

Paul Fremantle wrote:
> We need a simple ability for a user to add a dependency by hand. For 
> example, I may have a service that under the covers is calling another 
> service, but its coded in Java and there is no way of mechanically 
> discovering the dependency. So we need to be able to simply define the 
> dependency by hand.
>
> While we are at it, we should write an importer for synapse proxy 
> definitions, so we can basically use it to find dependencies between 
> the two proxy and target endpoint.
>
> One more thing we should be able to do by hand is to somehow mark a 
> service as a new version even if (for example) the WSDL stays the 
> same. The use case is that we've updated the logic without changing 
> the interface, but we need to let people know the service "version" is 
> new.
>
> Paul
>