Consider supporting Quarkus Dev UI in our extensions

[ppalaga]

Since Quarkus 1.11.0.Final, there is Quarkus Dev UI, see https://quarkus.io/guides/dev-ui
It allows to quickly visualise all the extensions currently loaded, see their status and go directly to their documentation.
The good news is that the docs links work for Camel Quarkus extensions.

On top of that, each extension can add:

• Custom useful bits of runtime information in the overview
• Full custom pages
• Interactive pages with actions

I wonder which of the above should we support?

See also quarkusio/quarkus#14471

[ppalaga]

To hide an extension from the Dev console, it should be enough to remove the docs link from the metadata. We should consider doing it for at least those support extensions which expose no Quarkus configuration.

[zbendhiba]

There are 2 interesting ideas I have, but there are just ideas from a non frontend person, and I don't know if those are easy to tackle:

• Looking at this kind of Dev UI developed recently : Layout broken in Kafka Streams dev console topology view quarkusio/quarkus#21059
• Or go for a more common UI around Camel projects, and have a dedicated back-end for Quarkus Dev UI. As for Kogito's demo on Quarkus insights. This idea is kind of a way bigger project.

[davsclaus]

Camel 3.15 comes with API for developer console (camel-console JAR).

It is an early prototype that comes with a set of out of the box consoles to provide various information about your running Camel application. More consoles will be added.

These consoles currently are text based, but we need to spec the data in JSon so graphical consoles in camel-quarkus can use the data and display nicely.

It seems the website has not updated yet with camel 3.15 docs, but there are some early details here
https://github.com/apache/camel/blob/main/docs/user-manual/modules/ROOT/pages/camel-console.adoc

[zbendhiba]

@davsclaus Nice. I'd try to give the camel-console a look when I have time.

[zbendhiba]

I'm looking into this for a POC with camel-console, so I'm assigning myself. Let me know if you are working on this

[jamesnetherton]

Let me know if you are working on this

Bit late, but since I've been playing with Camel JBang / dev consoles with CQ recently, I can work on this.

I have a POC where you can create Camel dev-ui pages in a simple & reusable way. You just specify the ID of the Camel console and it'll setup fetching the JSON content together with live updates. All you need to do handle displaying the results. Which is usually just a simple table.

[zbendhiba]

yes, please go ahead @jamesnetherton !!