Sonar (software quality) - extending sonar (controllers and views) - model-view-controller

I have been fiddling with SONAR for some time now, and I would like to extend it to some point. I don't think I will be able to achieve this with a custom plugin but if I would introduce an additional controller and some views - it would get the job done.
Now as I understand, MVC model in sonar is written in RUBY, and I have yet to do research on ruby coding, but before I get to that - is my goal reasonable/achievable ?
Or can additional views and controllers can be added via plugin extensions ?
Basically I just need certain information gathered from sonar DataBase about the project, and displayed in a custom view for additional statistics.
Thanks.
P.S. I have hard time finding information for sonar development, maybe someone could recommend some forums discussing sonar extension topics ?

It is not possible yet to add Ruby controllers and views at the same time through a Sonar plugin. Currently, when extending Sonar Web interface, you can only:
Add a Ruby widget (that will be displayed on a dashboard): this is only a view
Add a Ruby web service API: this is only a controller
Add a GWT extension: here you can define a controller and a view
However, please note that we will drop GWT support in the future, and replace it with the possibility to define extension points that allow to write both controllers and views in Ruby.
So to answer your need, I would advise you to write a widget, like the ones you can see on Sonar source code here: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar/tree/master/plugins/sonar-core-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/plugins/core/widgets
HTH

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I am trying to write an XD plugin that dynamically populates an artboard with components, but I don't see any mention of components in the XD plugin API. Is it possible to look through the file and find available components and place them on stage? Better yet, maybe even pull a component from a specific file in the cloud?
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to create symbol instances (that's what components are called in the APIs), yet. Here is the explaining quote from the plugin docs:
It is not currently possible for plugins to create a new component definition or a new SymbolInstance node, aside from using commands.duplicate to clone existing SymbolInstances.
(https://adobexdplatform.com/plugin-docs/reference/scenegraph.html#symbolinstance)
There is a feature request open for it in the official plugin developer forums which you can vote for. According to Steve Kwak (Adobe), however, this seems to be problematic due to the edit context, meaning it may still take a while until we get API access to that.
There, unfortunately, also, as of yet, isn't any way to list the available symbols for a document. For the other asset types, this is possible via the assets module (cf. https://adobexdplatform.com/plugin-docs/reference/assets.html), but not (yet) for symbols.
I hope this helps (although it's probably not the answer you've hoped for).

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I am new guy to Demandware and I am switching from Magento to Demandware.
Demandware is not opensource I am not getting proper tutorials, stuff to understand the concepts of it.
I am from Magento so I know the Magento MVC structure.
But in Demandware we have different concepts like pipelines, pipelets, ISML scripts, ECMA script, DW scripts etc.
I want to know the MVC pattern of Demandware.
How it works and what are the basic concept I need to concentrate?
I would suggest to request a Demandware XChange account as soon as possible for you, so that you get access to the Demandware community portal and also to the API documentation.
In short:
Models are Demandware Forms and Demandware API objects
Controllers are Demandware Pipelines (there are JavaScript Controllers that are recently released, you may find these easier to understand if you have Node.js experience). These can call DW Scripts (DemandwareScript is based on ECMAScript standard 5.0 for JavaScript with some extensions like E4X and optional types)
Views are the isml templates. You should avoid including a lot of logic in them, either with isml tags like isif, isloop, etc. or with isscript.
Any further questions - let me know.
Hope this helps,
Zlatin
I hope you'll be able to avoid pipelines and dwscript. Those are a bit older. The most recent version works with plain old JavaScript, with pipelines being replaced by controllers.
Be aware that the underlying JavaScript engine is Rhino, which isn't really modern.
The Demandware documentation is open source now anyone can access to without having an exchange account it has the latest SFRA(javascript) based concepts as well
here is the link for the docs
Demadware Documentation
Demandware is very much designed around the MVC concept (in theory). The pipelines are basically your controllers and each pipeline filename (the xml file) is the first part of the URL and the start nodes inside the pipeline are the second part of the URL that basically represent the controller (eg Cart.xml has a start node called Show, so the url is Cart-Show). At the end of the pipeline flow chart is, usually, an interaction node to that links to an ISML file, those are basically the View and are HTML with some minor Demandware-specific markup.
Typically in the MVC world you try to prevent putting business logic in the views, however if you use SiteGenesis as your starting point you'll find that not to be the case on most of the pages. If you switch to using Javascript Controllers instead of Pipelines, then it'll be closer to the Magento style of MVC (but using NodeJS-like syntax).

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This is similar to questions posted here - How to setup dashboard with all projects view/widget? & here - How to get all projects on a dashboard in multiple columns?
My question is how can we write custom widget that can access list of projects? The sample code for widgets in github is only about ptoject level widgets, whereas I want to create a widget that can be added in the Home Page dashbaord of my sonarqube instance
In order to accomplish this you have to build a plugin, which is going to have that widget. I advice you to take a read at this nice introduction . The widgets are actually a small part of plugins and are written using Ruby on Rails.

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to further elaborate my question, consider my application Named "MyERP" has two sub modules in its area.
1. HRM.
2. FRM.
and released this application to my client. later after release i decided to include another module for (AMS)Attendance Management System. so i wanted to structure MyERP in such a way, that my client can install this AMS module through MyERP web interface.
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I would like to create for my Yii application, a site where I can describe each model, view and controller used. However, doing this for each and everyone of my classes would be an extremely long task which I believe might already be solved out there.
Is there a way to automatically create an site with each model/view/controller and its methods, so then I can add a description to it?
Have you tried phpDocumentor http://www.phpdoc.org/? It's crawls your PHP files' comments and generates a simple website for them in the spirit of JavaDocs.
Or, better still, there is a custom extension you can use to build docs like those on the Yii site call Yii Docs Generator http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yiidocsgenerator. See the details at http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/186/how-to-generate-yii-like-documentation
I would take a look at T4MVC - it uses a T4 template to generate code for each controller / method. Maybe you could utilize it.
Have you looked into the Gii module of yii. Once you create the tables it can produce models and then CRUD (create, update, delete) pages. Excluding the database there would be no programming required. And then you have the full source in a readable and documented form to manipulate and change to suite your needs.
If you wan't something a bit more advanced or custom you could extend Gii and produce some of your own templates
Larry Ullman has a really nice series on Learning the Yii Framework. In part 3 of the series, he walks you through configuring Yii and enabling Gii, a web-based automated code generation tool for Yii. In part 5, he shows you how to use it to generate the code for your models. The whole series is a really nice introduction to Yii, I recommend it.

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