AD1545 - Extending the XPages Extension Library

AD1545 – Extending the
XPages Extension Library
04:00 PM-05:00 PM, 2nd February, 2016
Orange G
Padraic Edwards – IBM Ireland
Brian Gleeson – IBM Ireland

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Agenda
• Introductions
• ExtLib - A Brief History
• The ExtLib Contribution Process
• Hands-On: Making an ExtLib Contribution
• Extending Domino Designer
• ExtLibX – The Innovation Incubator
• Summary

Brian Gleeson
Software Developer
@BGleesonIE
Padraic Edwards
Software Developer
@paidi_ed
Introductions…

A Brief History of the XPages Extension Library
• 1st Release: OpenNTF - September 2010
• Upgrade Pack 1 for IBM Domino 8.5.3 – December 2011
 Promoted to IBM Domino 9.0 GA - March 2013
• Innovation Highlights from 2013
• New REST Calendar Service API and Mail API
• Single Page App Wizard for Mobile
• OneUI302 theme fixes
• Infinite scrolling property for the Data view

A Short History of the XPages Extension Library
• 9 OpenNTF releases in 2014
• XPages JUnit Test Framework enhancements
• Mobile TypeAhead support
• Relational support JDBC & DBCP
• Responsive Web Design – Bootstrap
• Community Contributions
• Continued Advancements in 2015
• More Responsive improvements
• Additional community contributions
• Bluemix Designer tooling
Over
85000
Downloads

Overview of Github ExtLib Integration
• Contributions are submitted via pull requests
• Merged into ExtLib after a bluewash review
 XPages Team code standards are applied…
• Code must build properly
• JUnit tests must pass
• Tagging of UI strings for localization
• Pull requests are closed once code is delivered

Overview of Github ExtLib Integration

How to start contributing today!
Tools
BuildSubmit
Code

Getting Started!
• Set up your IDE
• Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• XPages SDK for Eclipse RCP - http://bit.ly/1OCVYDI
• Optional Extras
• EGit - www.eclipse.org/egit
• Maven - http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases
• Domino Debug Plugin - http://ibm.co/1OEWS8Z
• Become an active member of OpenNTF
• http://tinyurl.com/joinOpenNTF

Create your Fork
https://github.com/OpenNTF/XPagesExtensionLibrary

Next Steps with your ExtLib Repository
ExtLib Main
Repository
Local
Repo
Remote
Repo
Bug Fix
Feature
Branch
Master
Fetch
Push
Fetch
Pull Request
Commit and Push
Clone
Periodic Push
ExtLibUser

Community Contributed Fixes
• PR31 - Fixed a typo  – Jesse Gallagher
• PR16 - InPlaceFormAction – Cameron Gregor
• PR14 - Picker Enhancements – Paul Withers
• PR5 - Add collection support to JSONBuilder – Nathan Freeman
• PR27 - New convenience method for ExtlibUtil – Jesse Gallagher
• PR21 - Fixed NPE in relational – Serdar Basegmez
• PR26 - Added “notes-platform” property for Maven Profile - Jesse

Thanks to our great community!

But we want MORE !
• What can you contribute ?
 Bug fixes
 A new control
 A new property for an existing control
 A new data source
 New Complex types – validators, converters, simple actions…
 Localization & Accessibility fixes
 Convenience methods that will help other developers
 Maven build enhancements

Where do I get help?
• Extensibility API’s - ibm.co/1UeZh8B
• Domino App Dev Wiki – articles on…
 Creating a control
 Creating a library
• Mastering XPages Books and Extension Library Book

Where do I get help?
• New Slack channel for Extension library
 https://openntf.slack.com/messages/extensionlibrary/
 Sign up here https://openntfslackin.mybluemix.net/
 XPages Team members active
• StackOverflow
 Nearly 4k of questions
 Over 80% answered
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xpages

Building a Contribution
• Maven – build automation framework
• Each plugin in the Extlib has been Mavenized
• M2e provides Maven integration in Eclipse
• Tycho configurator for Eclipse
• Window -> Preferences -> Maven -> Discovery ->Open Catalog
• Provides deployable UpdateSite
for Notes/Domino testing

Building a Contribution
• IBM Domino Build Management UpdateSite
 http://tinyurl.com/extlibBuildManagement

Testing a Contribution – optional
• Manually validate that your code works – no, really !
 Test your code changes locally
 Consider getting a code review from a colleague
• Optionally… you could create JUnit Tests!
 Use the XPages runtime JUnit Test Framework
• Also open sourced as part of the ExtLib project
 Existing Extlib JUnit test projects
• com.ibm.xsp.extlib.test, com.ibm.xsp.extlib.relational.test
 Run GreenExtlibTestSuite before committing a contribution

Localizing a contribution – optional
• XPages Runtime String Localization Tool

IBM Domino Designer Tooling Extensions
• IBM Domino Designer also provides Extensibility API’s
 Create your own Designer wizard
 Contribute your own property panels
 Add design time visualizations
 Add your own theme
• More information
 ibm.co/1RCWS8d

Creating a new wizard
• Wizards are great for generating XPages markup
 No need to understand all the properties of a palette item in advance
 XSP markup is generated based on some simple questions and answers
• How it works
 Drag and Drop a control
 Pop up a wizard
 Gather some design information
 Generate XSP markup
• Let’s take an example…

ExtLibX – Where New Ideas Take Hold !
• Incubator for Innovations, Experiments, PoCs
• Currently includes Bootstrap4 Alpha support
 A head start on the next major release
 “The world’s most popular HTML, CSS and JS framework”
• Projects have a lighter review process
 Quicker Results
• Contributions merged directly into GitHub
 Quicker Turnaround

Overview of ExtLibX Integration
• Pull requests are merged into main ExtLibX repository
ExtLib
Repo
IBM XPages
Product
Stream
ExtLibX
Repo Community
Repo’s
Forks
Submissions
Bluewash

Bootstrap 4 αlpha
• How to get it?
 Download from http://tinyurl.com/extlibx
 Install update site
 Or install as part of latest ExtLib
• How to contribute
 Fork repository - https://github.com/OpenNTF/XPagesExtLibX
 Write code
 Validate results
 Submit pull request

Bootstrap 4 – Implemented so far
• New Bootstrap plugin
 Plugin infrastructure + Bootstrap4.theme
 Bootstrap 4 αlpha.2 resources
 XPages specific CSS & JS resources
 Navbar Renderer
 2x Application Layout renderers
 Pager Renderer
 Dashboard Renderer
 Navigator Renderer
 Data View Renderer
• What’s missing? https://github.com/OpenNTF/XPagesExtLibX/issues

Get Involved
• Learn new skills
• Give back…
 Over 85,000 users have consumed ExtLib
 Less than 30 have contributed ….
• Get what you need !
 A fix for the bug that impacts you!
 A feature that benefits YOUR app!
• Have fun collaborating with community colleagues

Summary
• We learned how to setup an IDE
• How to create a Pull Request for ExtLib
• How to build a contribution
• How to test a contribution
• How to extend Extension Library Tooling
• How to contribute to ExtLibX

Sessions of Interest
• AD1548 - Building Responsive XPages Applications
9:15AM -10:15AM
3rd February 2016 - Orange F

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