On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Bimal Yashodha <kb.yashodha@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

As I'm doing my final task, which is to remove code duplications and OOping the code, I came across with a possible idea to re-factor schema exporting as plugins. That is, as done in "data exporting" with various formats(SQL, CSV, XML, PDF) the existing schema exporting funcationality would be implemented as plugins, while preserving OOP concepts.

So this would help in future in such a way, as the modularity and portability is enhanced, new schema exporting method can be integrated easily.

Hi Bimal,

This sounds good.

Currently the options shown to the user when exporting the schema do not change based on the export format. Some of these options are only related to specific export types. It would be better to show only the relevant options and this can be easily achieved with plugin architecture. Please have a look at the data export plugins to see how this is done for data exporting.

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Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne