ngXosLib

This is a collection of helpers to develop views as Angular SPA.

Tools

These tools are designed to help develop a GUI view. They assume XOS is running on your system and responding at: localhost:9999. The xos/configurations/frontend is normally sufficient for GUI development.

Apigen

Usage: npm run apigen

This tool automatically generates an angular resource file for each endpoint available in Swagger.

You can generate api related documentation with: npm run apidoc. The output is locate in api/docs. You can also see a list of available methods through Swagger at http://localhost:9999/docs/

Vendors

XOS comes with a preset of common libraries, as listed in bower.json:

• angular
• angular-route
• angular-resource
• angular-cookie
• ng-lodash

These libraries are served through Django, so they will not be included in your minified vendor file. To add a library and generate a new file (that will override the old one), you should:

• enter ngXosLib folder
• run bower install [myPackage] --save
• rebuild the file with gulp vendor

NOTE before adding libraries please discuss it to avoid this file to became huge

Helpers

XOS comes with an helper library that is automatically loaded in the Django template.

To use it, add xos.helpers to your required modules:

angular.module('xos.myView', [
  'xos.helpers'
])

It will automatically ad a token to all your requests, eventually you can take advantage of some other services:

• NoHyperlinks Interceptor: will add a ?no_hyperlinks=1 to your request, to tell Django to return ids instead of links.
• XosApi wrapper for /xos endpoints.
• XoslibApi wrapper for /xoslib endpoints.
• HpcApi wrapper for /hpcapi endpoints.

NOTE: for the API related service, check documentation in Apigen section.

ngXosViews

On top of auto-generated Django Admin Views and developer-defined Service Views, a set of custom views can be generate in XOS.

These views are based on AngularJs and they communicate with XOS through the REST APIs, providing a powerful and flexible way to present and manage data.

How to create a View

Getting Started

We have created a yeoman generator to help you scaffolding views.

As it is in an early stage of development you should manually link it to your system, to do this enter /gui/ngXosLib/generator-xos and run npm link.

To generate a new view

From /gui run yo xos. This command will create a new folder with the provided name in: /gui/ngXosViews that contain your application.

If you left empty the view name it should be /gui/ngXosViews/sampleView

Run a development server

In your view folder and run npm start.

This will install required dependencies and start a local server with BrowserSync

Publish your view

Once your view is done, from your view root folder, run: npm run build.

This will build your application and copy files in the appropriate locations to be used by django.

At this point you can enter: http://localhost:9999/admin/core/dashboardview/add/ and add your custom view.

NOTE url field should be template:xosSampleView

Add this view to a configuration setup

You can easily set this as a default view in a configuration just editing the {config}.yml file for that configuration, adding this lines:

{TabName}:                                    
  type: tosca.nodes.DashboardView              
  properties:                                  
      url: template:{viewName}     

and the edit the User section (normally it starts with padmin@vicci.org) in this way:

padmin@vicci.org:                                          
  type: tosca.nodes.User                                   
  properties:                                              
      firstname: XOS                                       
      lastname: admin                                      
      is_admin: true                                       
  requirements:                                            
      - tenant_dashboard:                                  
          node: Tenant                                     
          relationship: tosca.relationships.UsesDashboard  
      - {custom_dashboard}:                              
          node: {TabName}                                 
          relationship: tosca.relationships.UsesDashboard  

Install dependencies in your app

To install a local dependency use bower with --save. Common modules are saved in devDependencies as they already loaded in the Django template.

The npm start command is watching your dependencies and will automatically inject it in your index.html.

Linting

A styleguide is enforced trough EsLint and is checked during the build process. We highly suggest to install the linter in your editor to have realtime hint.

Test

The generator set up a test environment with a default test. To run it execute: npm test