Admin UI

[jchris]

the admin port :4985 should have an Admin UI for editing the sync function, browsing users, inspecting channels, etc.

[snej]

That's an awesome idea. What do you think is the best way to implement it? It could be like Futon, which (IIRC) is mostly a static set of resources that run client-side JS and talk to the server with XHR. Or it could be more built into the gateway itself, using a Go web framework (I think there are a few out there already.)

In the former case, we'd need to add more functionality to the admin REST API — for example, it doesn't yet have any way to get the list of users or roles.

[jchris]

I think this should be implemented like Futon, so it's all rest calls against the :4985 port. This means we need to add user and role listing apis, channel listing apis, as well as make sure :4985 is a superset of :4984

[jchris]

The big valuable views here:

• sync function editor with preview where you can see which channels it would populate / access it would grant, based on some test data (existing docs?)
• browse existing channels
• see which documents are in a channel
• see which users have access to a channel
• browse existing users
• which channels can a given user access

[jessliu]

Chris has been making progress on some initial feature work for the Admin UI, specifically the Sync Function Editor previewer. Further scope and brainstorm needed.

[jessliu]

After further review, it looks like this may actually be more "dev" UI. Breaking it down, hoping we can get something like the following:

Dev dashboard:

• Sync Function editor
• Live debug log view

Admin dashboard:

• Configuration panel
• Authentication manager
• Health metrics (such as: # requests queued, rate of requests being pushed, etc.)

[kvaillant]

It such a good idea. I currently use some nodejs script to print out user roles and user channels.
I would add in the Admin dashboard :

• User roles
• User channels

[jchris]

BTW the code for this lives here https://github.com/couchbaselabs/sync_gateway_admin_ui

[adamcfraser]

Actively being worked on here: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/sync_gateway_admin_ui - tracking ongoing development in that repo.