brilliant idea: support the non javascript guys

[laszewsk]

Here a possibly brilliant idea for supporting the non javascript guys. HOWEVER, IT IS OF IMMEDIATE BENEFIT FOR YOU..... for RAPID DEVELOPMENT

let us assume I have a cms command that returns a son object similar to our Printer

lets use the "cms flavor list command"

What if we coudl do the following

cms viewer add --name="my command" --icon="incon.jpg" --command="! cms set cloud=chameleon; cms flavor list command"

or assuming that cms is installed and we use Joshes brilliant way to invoke

cms viewer add --name="my command" --icon="incon.jpg" --command="set cloud=chameleon\n flavor list --refresh --output=flat"

This thing would add on the left hand side a link with icon (icon options) that then executes the script. It simply appands

or in yaml:

sidebar:
   mycommand:
       label: My Command
        icon: icon.png or icon name form icon set or something like that (optional)
       execute: |-
           set cloud=chameleon
           banner -c b BEGIN TABLE DATA
           flavor list --refresh --output=flat
           banner -c e END TABLE DATA
     renderer: (optional, if left off card and table are produced and all 
                       columns from the table are rendered in card and table) 
     - table:
         columns: (possibly optional, but we could make mandatory)
            order: 
            - name
            - othercolumnname
            - size
            header:
            - Name
            - othercolumnname
            - Size
     - card
          columns: (possibly optional, but we could make mandatory)
            order: 
            - name
            - size
            header:
            - Name
            - Size
topleft:
    same as above
topright:
    same as above

Would that not solve all the issues you have with quickly adding new features in the sidebar

Now if you think about this this could even be applied to the topbar, where we could add icons and other things

So this would immediately be useful, as we can also remove things fore people that do not like vms but containers, and we just provide container functions from cloudmesh

This thought does not include the ability to select from a dropdown, but that is not that important

if we need to support dropdown we could do

sidebar:
   SelectCloud:
      renderer: dorpdown
      label: Select Cloud:
      name: cloud
     list:
         - chameleon
         - aws
     execute: |-
           set cloud={name}
           

[laszewsk]

we put this in ~/.cloudmesh/javascript/config.yaml

[laszewsk]

maybe electron has something like this already? e.g. layout in yaml, but if so we need to pass along the execute ... which is not just an os.system call