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Bug 352066

Summary:	Simplify extension configuration mechanism
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Robert Wetzold <robert.wetzold>
Component:	Skalli	Assignee:	Project Inbox <skalli.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	michael.ochmann
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Robert Wetzold

2011-07-14 06:00:04 EDT

Currently one needs quite a lot of boilerplate code to offer configurable extensions in a way that the extension can be configured without redeploying.

It would be much nicer and simpler to have a Hudson like mechanism: each extension defines which parameters it supports including default values (for which an admin interface can be supplied easily or even generated automatically). The extension can then simply query its current parameters through a single method call which could e.g. be implemented in the object where extensions extend from.