JCRBrowser for Sling

[Sandro Boehme <sa...@gmx.de>]

Hello,

to examine the content in a Sling resource tree I created a preview 
version of the JCRBrowser for Sling. It currently provides the following 
features:
o It is easily installable with an OBR.
o Navigation by keyboard (arrow keys and space key)
o Lazy loading and unloading of tree nodes via ajax and json
o Bookmarkable nodes
o Stateless client

At the wiki https://github.com/sandroboehme/jcrbrowser/wiki you see a 
screenshot and find other infos.

See the README for the installation instructions:
https://github.com/sandroboehme/jcrbrowser/blob/master/jcrbrowser/README

What do you think? Does it work for you? Is this something that could be 
useful for you? Should I go ahead with it and enhance it with editing 
capabilities? What other features would you like to see?

Best,

Sandro

Re: JCRBrowser for Sling

[Sandro Boehme <sa...@gmx.de>]

Hi Bertrand,

Am 09.05.12 23:55, schrieb Bertrand Delacretaz:
> Hi Sandro,
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Sandro Boehme<sa...@gmx.de>  wrote:
>> ...to examine the content in a Sling resource tree I created a preview version
>> of the JCRBrowser for Sling...
> ...
>> At the wiki https://github.com/sandroboehme/jcrbrowser/wiki you see a
>> screenshot and find other infos...
>
> Looks good!
I'm glad you like how it looks.

>
> Did you look at our other explorers? We have two of them already ;-)
Yes, e.g. I actually started to enhance the tree of the first one (the 
Sling Explorer). I tried to improve the way the dotted lines end but 
came to the conclusion that there is no way to do that and looked for 
other solutions. This is how I came across JSTree which already has the 
keyboard and lazy loading and unloading support.
With GWT I always feel like I don't have enough influence on some areas. 
But thats my personal opinion.


>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/bundles/extensions/explorer
> This one offers fairly comprehensive editing functionality, it might
> be good to merge (at least ideas) between it and yours?
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/contrib/explorers/gwt
> This one is based on gwt, navigation is quite fast but IIUC it doesn't
> do editing yet.
>
> I'm not using any of them myself, as we have our own editor in our
> Sling-based products - but I think it would be great to have a
> full-featured browser.
Well, it's a long way until a full-featured JCRBrowser. But it's good to 
know that you like to have one for Sling.

Best,

Sandro

>
> -Bertrand
>

Re: JCRBrowser for Sling

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi Sandro,

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Sandro Boehme <sa...@gmx.de> wrote:
> ...to examine the content in a Sling resource tree I created a preview version
> of the JCRBrowser for Sling...
...
> At the wiki https://github.com/sandroboehme/jcrbrowser/wiki you see a
> screenshot and find other infos...

Looks good!

Did you look at our other explorers? We have two of them already ;-)

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/bundles/extensions/explorer
This one offers fairly comprehensive editing functionality, it might
be good to merge (at least ideas) between it and yours?

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/contrib/explorers/gwt
This one is based on gwt, navigation is quite fast but IIUC it doesn't
do editing yet.

I'm not using any of them myself, as we have our own editor in our
Sling-based products - but I think it would be great to have a
full-featured browser.

-Bertrand