spring-tools/eclipse-extensions/org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.dash.azure/create-new-target-steps.md

Creating new 'Run Target Type' of boot dashboard.

These are the very roughly sketched steps taken to create the 'Azure Spring Cloud' target.

• Create a eclipse plugin to host your code
• make it depend on org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.dash
• Setup a class to define your 'injections' via the boot dash's SimpleDIContainer
  • see org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.dash.azure.BootDashInjections
  • wire it into BootDash via eclipse extension point org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.dash.injections
• Create a class for your new RunTargetType (AzureRunTargetType).
  • make it extend AbstractRunTargetType
  • implement all abstract methods with simple stubs (e.g. many can throw 'not implemented yet' exceptsion)
  • Create a injection of this class in your 'BootDashInjections' class.

At this point you can run your creation in a Eclipse runtime workbench. When you access the pulldown menu under the '+' icon in the dash your target should show (might not do anything yet when selected if you have not implemented it yet.)

Implement a dialog UI that prompts the user for all the necessary infos to create a target

• authenticate with the platform
• choose a target (i.e. in cf api url, user org, space), for Azure... credentials (oauth token), subscription, resource group, service