syndesis Ability for integration/flow fragments

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[ X ] Feature request
[ ] Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release)
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Description

The concept of conditional flows is very appealing. It would be great to be able to re-use conditional flows across multiple integrations.

Maybe something more generic like an "integration fragment", where any part of any integration/conditional flow can use a pre-built integration fragment.

Just spit-balling, but maybe this integration fragment could be a complete integration itself that can be re-used as part of another integration?

Jul 29 '19 14:07 edeandrea

The fragment should have a defined input and output. So all integrations using the fragment are forced to provide the input and can use the defined output (if any).

Jul 29 '19 14:07 christophd

We would need to have some versioning of these fragments. So changes to the defined input/output of that fragment do not break existing integrations running with a previous version of the fragment.

Jul 29 '19 14:07 christophd

@christophd That's why I mentioned maybe an entire integration could be called a fragment. An integration itself could be reused as a fragment, rather than having to create a completely separate kind of thing to manage.

You are correct, we'd need some metadata on the integration that defines inputs/outputs of the integration.

This would make it really nice to be able to compose integrations together.

Jul 29 '19 14:07 edeandrea