VegBank

Making the 5 "major" bugs critical so that bugzilla highlights them in red, how
nice.

• Bug 847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

not required for Feb29 release.

Per the initial request, I'd say this bug can be closed. We have the
GenericDispatch action which works well, labeled as "Summary Report" on the plot
query results page. Improvements to the display are possible, but as stated
originally they should be new bugs.

Perhaps this bug is unclear. We need a way to view any data in the database by
simply calling a URL and perhaps a set of PK/AccessionCodes to view.

Something like:
vegbank.org/vegbank/view.do?accCode=VB.CC.123
and
vegbank.org/vegbank/view.do?tbl=party&PKs=1,4,14,56

--it wouldn't have to be as transparent as this, but this gives the idea.

We need to also think about the different views that these should produce and
name them. For example, summary view (standard spreadsheet view), comprehensive
view (field1: value1 <br/> field2: value2 <br/> etc.), PK translation (instead
of party_ID=45, we get "Jo Smith"), etc.

URLs add &view=summary

This is really important because as we accomplish new functionality, we want to
be able to see it. Right now, it's hard to really see what's going on in the db
if we make some nice change.

Apache's powerful URL rewriting capabilities gives us lots of options here. For one, I'd prefer to keep
the script name out of the URL entirely. e.g.

1. View an entity by accession code in comprehensive (full) mode
   http://vegbank.org/get/full/VB.CC.123

1. View a list of parties by PK
   http://vegbank.org/get/full/party/1,4,14,56

1. Summary view
   http://vegbank.org/get/summary/party/1,4,14,56

1. Get raw XML for a given accession code
   http://vegbank.org/get/xml/VB.CC.123

1. Get raw XML for a given list of PKs
   http://vegbank.org/get/xml/party/1,4,14,56

General form:

/get/ (AC | 'full' | 'summary' | 'xml') / (entity_name | AC)

Something like that.

• Bug 1221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Squashing this bug with our first custom JSP tag, <vegbank:get> which uses
configurable SQL queries to populate a list or single bean or map in a JSP page.
First use was quite effective.

see http://gyro.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/vegbank/forms/aux_role_viewall.jsp as an
example, created in 20 min by PMark and me

Original Bugzilla ID was 1220