tags on devices and networks (and other device settings/overrides)

[LewisPringle]

WTF feature as important as NAMING devices - tags list!

    (so can group by tags and and filter by tags) for nets and devices

+ need to mark nets/devicoes as favorites
  and take into account in sort.

+ and in combobox in ui for networks, only take top 10 (so we lose old nets ability to filter)

[LewisPringle]

Probably add 'User-Overrides' section to Device object, and maybe have way to get all devices with overrides, and maybe just auto-include User-Overrides in each object?

But PATCH (probably) lets you update fields of the User-Overrides section for a device or network.

[LewisPringle]

OLD SUGGESTION THAT BASICALLY MAPS TO THIS:

• UI - networks
  name - DEFAULTS to some combo of friendlyname and network addrs, but is editable

  • allow PATCH ui on Network/ID/ ... name=new-name...

  • PATCH support for DEVICES

  • allow sepecify name and notes

  • and display notes in addition to name

[LewisPringle]

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add editable field for 'Notes'

[LewisPringle]

UNCLEAR if we want favorites attribute. Clear we want some user overrides. Unclear if we want rigid data model, or arbitrary patches on existing data model. Probably safer to go with rigid data model.

[LewisPringle]

considering adding this to device model: struct UserOverridesType { /* / optional fName;

        /**
         */
        optional<Collection<String>> fTags;

        /**
         * @todo consider but probably interpret the text as markdown.
         */
        optional<String> fNotes;
    };

[LewisPringle]

For now - only support PATCH on DEVICE/ID/ /userOverrides/X fields...

[LewisPringle]

try first getting WSAPI working for device user overrides. Then do network useroverrides (probably also name, tags, notes).

[LewisPringle]

next step is MGR API to store in database, and mixin, and PATCH WSAPI to be able to set.

[LewisPringle]

I think device part done, and maybe tweak full set of fields can set (at least create demo/example in docs); and then do network usersettings equivilent. THEN backend part of this is done.

[LewisPringle]

as part of this rewriting the rollup code (did network, and doing device). And added 'names' feature to networks as well (as I had done before to devices).

[LewisPringle]

mostly done with backend code. Just a bit more cleanup and hten move on to GUI side of this,

[LewisPringle]

SADLY - for vEthernet (nat) {172.28.16.0/20} etc being repeated so many times is to use aggregating the same (rolled up) network interface. BUT - I dont support that yet. May need to push down the stack and tackle that problem now ;-(

[LewisPringle]

doing UI for NOTES (and tags) right now.

[LewisPringle]

when adding tags support for devices/networks, also allow that tags to be shown in column for devices/networks view