Flavour Component Wizard

Summary

Creating a component in Flavour involves 3 interrelated changes:

In this feature, the plugin will provide a wizard that automates most of these steps.

Right-click on a package in the Project view
Pick 'Create Flavour Component'
Enter the component name, like Button. This creates ButtonComponent.java, button.html, and makes the registry entry.

It generates component files and updates the component registry:

What the wizard looks like:

Right-click on a package
Pick 'Create Flavour Component' in the menu
- Alternative: 'New File / Flavour Component'
Complete Page 1
- Package name: Defaulted from right-click target
- Component class name: Required
- HTML template filename: Defaulted from component class name, but editable
Click 'Finish'
Files get created/updated
- The Component Java file and Template file get created
- The package's component resource file gets created or updated as required.
The template and Java code will be opened in the editor. (Phase 2. Maybe there should be a checkbox in the wizard to control this)

Where else would users like to create new components from? Other HTML templates, when you need to embed a component in a template you are creating?

Naming Standard
- Component class name ends in "Component": AddressComponent, ChartComponent, AnimatedButtonComponent
- Template Filename is the name of the component file, with 'Component.java' replaced with '.html' and the first letter lowercase
  - AddressComponent.java becomes address.html
  - AnimatedButtonComponent.java becomes animatedButton.html

If the component or template already exists, the wizard will not overwrite. Error messaging will likely be limited in early releases, just a dialog on error.
New components will be appended to the package resource file. Long-term, it is better to alphabetize them, but that won't be in the first releases.

Last modified on 15 Dec 2020 by AO