[New Feature]: Enhancing WSO2 MI Mediators

[SanojPunchihewa]

Description

The use of the Mediators in MI is burdensome for new users. This feature aims to simplify the UI/UX experience and make them intuitive for new users.

Describe your problem(s)

Most of the mediator's UIs contain product specific naming conventions which are incomprehensible for a new user. Furthermore, the user may need to provide different properties or configurations as well.

Describe your solution(s)

To overcome this issue, we need to simplify the UI schemas and make them intuitive while hiding unnecessary properties and configurations.

1. Review and analyse existing mediators and configurations
2. Improve the UI/UX of mediators while hiding unnecessary properties and configurations from the user
3. Design and develop the new Variable Mediator to allow users to store and manage values dynamically during mediation

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[SanojPunchihewa]

• Since this feature requires improvements for the MI runtime, VSCode UI plugin and the VSCode language server, as per the initial discussions we will be introducing new set of mediators which will be available on MI VSCode plugin according to the project runtime version the user defined when creating the integration project. ie for old projects, the already existing mediators can be used without any issue.

• The Log mediator will be improved to allow the user to configure a string template as the message.

Initial brainstorm proposal can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FBd0S6gHfXoV5eaZGusDGxfs5mV1P-bcuWJl8krUN_A/edit?pli=1#heading=h.lgmphe6l5nqq