The current state

 Class structure

• Three classes displaying similarly looking (but not the same!) extra namelist panels:
  • Grid2DExtraInputPanel
    • Used by Grid2D application
    • A member of Grid2DNamelistPanel that extends CenterPanel
  • ENamelistPanel
    • Used by Edge2D application
    • A member of EGoNamelistPanel that extends CenterPanelCheck (that extends CenterPanel)
  • ExtraNamelistPanel
    • Used by Jetto, Sanco, Mishka, Helena, Elite
    • A member of OutputExtraNamelistPanel that extends CenterPanelCheck (that extends CenterPanel)

 Challenges

• Complex legacy code
• The current implementation violates Model-View-Controller principia:
  • No clear separation of data and GUI that makes both 'tightly coupled'
  • Some data are kept in table 'model' 
  • GUI influences the way data are storing
• Arrays specified as a set of entries: (variable name, index, value)
• Quite a lot of time spent on 'reverse engineering' essential to understand dependencies and internal mechanisms working 'under the hood'
  • How / from data are being read?
  • How / where data are being saved?
• Necessity to kept backward compatibility in terms of produced output files 

 Development

 GUI

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• NewExtraNamelistPanel class, replacing ExtraNamelistPanel - designed and developed

• package jet.misc.extranamelist.gui;

Progress:

• GUI development
• simplification of architecture
table is resizable

• Integration of NewExtraNamelistPanel  class:

  • Integrated: 
    • Jetto
    • Sanco
    • Mishka
    • Helena
    • Elite
  • Not integrated (not handled by a common class - see below)integrated 
    • Grid2D
    • Edge2D
• Additional dialog to present variable data and metadata and to edit value

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Data handling

• A Variable class: 
  • name
  • overview
  • obsolete
  • Specification class
    • namelist
    • model
    • tab
  • Data class
    • meta_type
    • type
    • value
  • Info class
    • link
    • description
  Active variables saved to settings

 Open points

Config files

 YAML file format

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