[Yanel-dev] Workflow

[Josias Thöny]

Hi devs,

Do we already have a concept about the workflow?
Should it be implemented as a Workflowable interface?

Here is a proposal for the "simplest possible" Workflowable interface:

     void publish();
     void deactivate();
     void edit(); // invoke edit event to allow re-publishing
     boolean isLive();
     boolean canPublish();
     View getLiveView(String viewid);

A possible implementation could use a specific revision of a resource as 
the "live" version. This would require that a Workflowable resource is 
also Versionable.

The problem with such a "hard-coded" interface is that it's maybe not 
easy to extend to a more generic workflow schema (e.g. with 
submit/reject or arbitrary workflow transitions).

Another question is how to access the live version from the browser. 
Michi suggested to create a LiveResource. IIUC this resource would catch 
all urls which start with a certain prefix: /live/** (is that possible 
at all?)
In the example /live/foo.html it would return the live version of /foo.html.

Any comments?

Josias