Async UI

1 Requirements

ILIAS has no guideline or technical concept for asynchonuous user interfaces (async UI).
 
Advantages

• Instant Feedback / faster response?
• Less server load (lightweight requests)?

1.1 Open Questions

• technology
  • Client-Side libraries: AngularJS, JQuery, ...?
  • Transmission protocoll: REST, SOAP (not honestly), ...?
  • Routing: ilCtrl?
• data-structure (container)
  • JSON vs. XML?
  • status codes
  • payload
  • ...
• request structure
  • REST + JSON?
• response structure
  • html vs. raw-data + client-side-templates?
  • response codes (a la REST?)
• error handling
  • session timeout, connectivity, etc.
• performance optimizations?
  • short-lived access tokens to skip recurring RBAC-checks, etc.?
  • optimized routing?
• integration in ILIAS
  • technical concept
  • guideline
  • where not to be used?
  • ...

1.2 Example Implementation

The following plugin (University of Marburg) has a small async UI based on angular JS and REST.
This could be a starting point for the discussion:
https://github.com/hrz-unimr/Ilias.RESTPlugin

2 Status

• Scheduled for: Not scheduled yet (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Funding: Required / Interest in funding: (please indicate if you are interested to fund this feature)
• Maintainer: (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Implementation of the feature is done by (company, developer)
• Contract settled: No | Fill in "Yes" if a contract is already settled and add Institution / Organisation in "Funding" row
  
• Tested by / status: (name, e-mail), (status information set after implementation)

3 Additional Information

Contact the following persons if you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding:

• Information about concept: (name, e-mail)
• Information about funding: (name, e-mail)
• Information about implementation: (name, e-mail)

4 Discussion

CK 09.12.2014: We want to organise a developer workshop on this topic in January 2015. Possible workshop candidates right now: January 06, 13, 15 or 21. Still to be announced officially of course.

5 Implementation

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