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** How to save VME-DB Reports in iMarine Workspace | ** How to save VME-DB Reports in iMarine Workspace |
Revision as of 12:24, 28 October 2013
Meeting 25 October 2013, 12:00-18:00 pm
Location: FAO, Rome.
Presents:
- M. Assante - CNR
- A. Ellenbroek - FAO
- A. Gentile - FAO
- E. Van Ingen - FAO
Agenda
12:00-13:00
Discussion: M. Assante, E. Van Ingen
- Status and presentations of the new tools
- The gCube Reports Modeler
- The gCube Reporting Library
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-17:30
Discussion: M. Assante, A. Ellenbroek, A. Gentile, E. Van Ingen
- VME-DB / iMarine Interoperability
- iMarine Templates Web Application
- iMarine Reports Web Application
- How to transform VME-DB Reports in iMarine Reports and viceversa.
- How to save VME-DB Reports in iMarine Workspace
Notes
- iMarine VME-DB Application will be divided into 3 tiers:
- [1] VME-DB: The Database containing the VME Reports (Relational/Graph Structure)
- [2] iMarineReports: The WebApplication delegated to the creation and editing of VME Reports
- [3] Report Storage Gateway (RSG): The (mediator) Webservice that will make [1] and [2]interoperable.
- The communication between [3] and [2]. will be based on a ReportModel that [2] is able to read and write.
- CNR to provide FAO an API (ReportsModeler) to easily create and read ReportModel instances based on the gCube Reporting Library:
<groupId>org.gcube.portal</groupId> <artifactId>gcube-reporting-library</artifactId>
- A VME Report (even its Fact Sheet Representation) originates from a Query (join) executed against the VME-DB.
- As a result a VME Report contains unique and referenced (shared among other VME Reports) information.
Proposed solution: the main idea is to separate the editing of unique and referenced information.
From an end-user point of view
- When an end-user opens a VME Report in [2] (Report Instance in the following) he can edit only the Unique parts of the report, specifically, the ones belonging to the VME-DB relations named: VME, SpecificMeasure, Profile.
- The opened Report Instance contains also the references without giving the possibility of editing them (in this stage). The identified references are the VME-DB relations named: GeneralMeasure, InformationSource, History_1, History_2.
- It is possible for an end-user to associate and remove References from a Report Instance, e.g. remove or associate more than an InformationSource. The References list (where users can choose from) is populated in "real-time" by [2] trough a specific call to [3].
- A Report Instance can be saved in the workspace, an explicit action is required by the end user to export it to the VME-DB.
- The editing of References will be performed through a separated WebApp (CNR To Do) called Reference Editor. In the Reference Editor a reference can be edited through the following steps:
- Step1: The list of VME Reports available is shown to the User, the User chooses a VME Report containing the Reference he wants to edit.
- Step2: The list of the all the References "Associated" to the yet chosen VME Report is shown, User chooses the Reference.
- Step3: At this point the User acquires a Lock on this Reference, the user edits and saves, the reference is committed in the VME-DB (still through [3]), the reference is unlocked.
- Each Report Instance having References is guaranteed to show the most updated ones since, wether the Report Instance comes directly from [3] or was previously saved in the workspace, [2] always asks [3] these references (that comes directly from [1]). ([3] passes [2] the reference identifier not the reference itself).
From an developer point of view
types: {Vme,Refs,InformationSource,GeneralMeasure,History1,History2} A ReportRef has attributes id and type [3] Draft Interface Type getTypes(); ReportEntry - List<nameValue> List<ReportEntry> listReports(type); ReportModel getReport(type, reportId); publishDelta(List<ReportModel>); publishRef(ReportModel);