MagmaControlPanel for Seaside

[keith hodges]

If anyone is interested a first cut demo of MagmaControlPanel is
available in

http://www.squeaksource.com/MagmaSeasideWIP

Although the sushi store does not really need its own
contol/initialization panel I have added one as an example.

The UI is very rudimentary, stylesheets fairly non existent, but... it
works (I think)

Keith

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Notes:

Using the Seaside configuration application you can access
MagmaControlPanel. (you have to over-ride the default magma location
configuration to access the link)

MagmaControlPanel provides a UI for creating a repository if it does not
exist

(note: it takes magma quite a long time to report that a repository does
not exist, which is not really necessary just to check for the existence
of a file, I have held back from hacking this into the mainstream release.)

User is offered a choice of root objects for their repository (just as
in the configuration editor a number of sessions/main/configurations are
offered, except that some context is provided for the user to know what
they are selecting - this contextual information for the uninitiated
user is missing from seaside IMHO)

Once a root object has been selected and the repository is online, it
may be deleted through the UI.

The repository root object provides a component (itself) to be rendered
as a status/initialization/configuration display.

The commit strategy is #commitAndBegin performed on every page refresh,
so the MagmaControlPanel handles the magmaSession entirely.  The
repository root object does not/cannot have any access to the
magmaSession while in the context of the WAConfigurationEditor because
this is using WASession.

The magmaSession is disconnected when the user clicks the #done button.
I have not made any other attempt to clear up open sessions, hoping that
they will be garbage collected and handled nicely somewhere eventually.
(Is this naive?)

Status display for all open RepositoryControllers is also provided,
although what stats would be useful to report here I dont know.



		
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