Spring/FTL Conversion Spike

JIRA: MIFOS-4409

Goals of spike

• get hot FTL pages working again (fast turnaround on ftp page revisions)
  • eclipse: need to add resources dir containing FTL to build path and set preferFileSystemAccess to true. run mvn war:war in application
• convert client savings account creation area to Spring/FTL
  • service facades in place so all data/behaviour should be available, if not we will need to tweak and happy to help/collaborate on this with stanley/whoever.
  • (Reached from Clients&Accounts tab, Create Savings account link on left side)
  • Create Pages:
    • Create Savings Account - Select a customer;
    • Create Savings account - Enter Savings account information (2 pages) ;
    • Create Savings account - Preview Savings account information
    • Edit Savings account information button from preview page
  • testing
    • unit tests (in memory) for Spring controllers (for significant functionality)
    • UI level acceptance tests - functional UI test in place - CreateSavingsAccountTest
    • schedule manual walk through of CSS with PM/QA/Dev.
    • manual UI test by QA on multiple browsers
  • use and document FTL templates
  • use and document code patterns
  • identify addition templates/patterns that are needed to accelerate work
• identify whatever ways we can to accelerate Spring/FTL conversion
• re-estimate total effort for conversion accross mifos based on single conversion from spike
• faster testing?
  • Create API for createSavingsAccount - different spike assigned to Kojo:
  • functional UI test in place - CreateSavingsAccountTest - any rework involved with that test due to spike?

Stories

• document eclipse FTL configuration for hot FTL pages
• Proposal - One timeboxed story on FTL spike

Spring Web flow examples in application

• user.xml (not yet brought into application)
• createQuestion.xml