[jira] [Created] (WOOKIE-414) Decrease preferences protocol overhead

["Michael Aram (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Michael Aram created WOOKIE-414:
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             Summary: Decrease preferences protocol overhead
                 Key: WOOKIE-414
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-414
             Project: Wookie
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Michael Aram
            Priority: Minor


Consider a use case, where you automatically embed Wookie widgets and have to configure them a bit. Think of a news reader widget that gets a concrete news feed URL set as a parameter on startup.

The problem with the current API is, though, that it allows us only to set parameters one by one. This results in a unnecessary network overhead, as the container has to send e.g. 6 HTTP requests (for a widget with 5 preferences) to Wookie before being able to deploy the Wookie-Widget-Instance-URL of the correctly configured widget-instance to the users browser. (Another, minor problem is the existence of an unconfigured or partly configured widget instance in the course of this transaction.)

Therefore, I propose to extend the REST API so that it allows one to send an additional JSON (member) object containing widget properties when instantiating a widget. Resulting in 1 HTTP request only between container and Wookie.

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