Display impacted files for modules

[DamnClin]

In the module page it would be great to display the files that will be impacted by the module. The idea to do this for free (for module maintainers) will be to:

• Create a project in a temp folder using module dependencies and parents (we need hierarchy for that);
• Apply the module;
• Get the diff to put the in the WebService responses and display that

[pascalgrimaud]

adding a big bounty here, as it seems to be a lot of work to achieve this, and it will be a great feature

[antarus]

Before going so far, we can already know the modified files since we list them in the factory. "All you have to do" is extract the files defined in the module's factory with a new method.

Perhaps by defining appendFiles statically rather than dynamically. If we add a dependency, we add the pom.xml to the list of affected files, etc. but it makes redo part of the module module

[DamnClin]

I don't think it is really far :D. We do need to have modules hierarchy migrated to modules but that's the main pain point here I think

[antarus]

Let's say that we have to execute everything twice to find out which files have been modified and the applied ones , when they are known in the factory.

but having a diff at the end would be a plus :D

[pascalgrimaud]

The workaround for this ticket is simply exec the module without commiting so we can easily use git So not sure it deserves to work on this What do you think @DamnClin ?