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  1. Causeway
  2. CAUSEWAY-968

Rationalize handling of menu actions and contributed actions

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • core-1.7.0
    • core-1.8.0
    • Core
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    Description

      Currently we have the following annotations:

      • on the domain service: @Hidden - to hide all actions (still in the metamodel); nb: this has been deprecated in ISIS-970 with no replacement
      • on the action: @NotContributed to suppress being contributed, optionally @NotContributed(As.ASSOCIATION) or @NotContributed(As.ACTION); is still in menu
      • on the action: @NotInServiceMenu to suppress being in menu; can still be contributed.

      This is all somewhat clumsy, and the negative @NotXxx annotations are confusing to read (@NotContributed(As.Xxx) in particular).

      ~~~
      In Naked Objects MVC they distinguish between three different "types" of service:

      • menu services (actions are on menus and are contributed)
      • contributions (actions are only ever contributed)
      • system services (actions never appear on menu or are contributed).

      This separation works well; "domain-level" system services (typically factories and repositories) are injected into the "view-level" menu or contribution services.
      ~~~

      This ticket proposes:

      Extend @DomainService to characterize the nature of each domain (similar to NO MVC):

      @DomainService(nature=VIEW | VIEW_MENU | VIEW_CONTRIBUTIONS | DOMAIN )
      

      where:

      • VIEW = current behaviour, and the default
      • VIEW_MENU = actions are not contributed
      • VIEW_CONTRIBUTIONS = in other words actions are not in service menu
      • DOMAIN = are not shown in view ie actions implicitly hidden

      In addition, extend @ActionLayout to include further UI hints:

      @ActionLayout(
          contributedAs    = ACTION|ASSOCIATION|BOTH   // default is "BOTH"; equivalent (inverse of) the current @NotContributed(As.Xxx)
      )
      

      which for domain service of VIEW or VIEW_CONTRIBUTIONS can restrict the contribution if required.

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            danhaywood Daniel Keir Haywood
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