Preview URL not displayed while accessible

[slemeur]

Description

While I've been able to access the previewURL and it is accessible. The preview panel is not rendering the URL properly.
See attached screenshot:

Reproduction Steps

1. Java-Maven Stack + vertx-http-booster
2. run task "run"

OS and version:

Diagnostics:

[akurinnoy]

hello @slemeur
I'm confused a bit with the description.
Could you please elaborate on it? Where is the bug? What is expected behavior?

[slemeur]

Check in the previewURLs panel.
It seems that ${server.8080}/tcp which is not compute properly.

[akurinnoy]

I thought the same. But yesterday I discussed this with @RomanNikitenko and found out that it was done deliberately. The reason was to not show there the whole URL which may be too long to fit the panel.

[slemeur]

Then what's the benefit to the end-user to see that information?
Let's just display the proper URL, make it clickable and truncate it if it's too long. Consider displaying the full URL on hover in a tooltip.

[akurinnoy]

yes, that makes sense to me
thanks!

[RomanNikitenko]

The behavior came from task extension when I was reworking this one to plugin.
But I think the point was to match server defined from dashboard

So user defines some server in a config and then can see it on the panel as label and two buttons to go by reference

[slemeur]

I think it's going to be confusing for the end-user. He might even not understand where this is coming from and there is no way to edit/configure that information.

As a user, when I run a task that is starting a process with a previewURL associated, I'm intending to find a place where I can see the previewURL (and all the ones started).
Also, as a user, seeing the panel for PreviewURLs, I'm intending to see the previewURLs, not the servers.
Also, as a user, I'd also be interested to find information about the task and the server related to the previewURLs - but those are secondary information.

[sleshchenko]

@slemeur Looks like it's a good time to raise the issue that commands in Devfile do not support preview URLs. So, the described issue may be not actual for Che 7 with Devfiles or maybe it's needed to create an issue to support previewURL in commands of devfile.

[RomanNikitenko]

@slemeur I don't mind, I just explained the history of this question...