App Groups: add support for aliases

[davidwatkins73]

Description

Include in search.

Idea is that we can swap over the names of the auto groups.

Resourcing

We intend to contribute this feature

[davidwatkins73]

Tasks:

• figure out how to copy the aliases widget from application overview to app-group overview
• ensure the back-end can persist/retrieve changes
• (bonus) port to svelte and decom existing code if possible
• ensure the aliases are used when searching
• ensure changelog entries are written when a user edits aliases
• NEW: cleanup changelog entry message
• NEW: ensure user has permissions

[davidwatkins73]

Alias changes are recorded in the changelog, but the message is a but ugly:

Updated alias, entity: EntityReference{kind=APPLICATION, id=10, entityLifecycleStatus=ACTIVE}, new aliases: [test], user: admin

[davidwatkins73]

Looks like server-side permissioning is not enforced, should probably be a new issue as probably impacts tags as well.

[davidwatkins73]

Doing the search efficiently may be tricky. The AppGroupDao::search method already does a union seach for private and public groups. Using aliases would require two more parts to the union (private-aliases and public-aliases).

Not sure if we can do better.

[davidwatkins73]

Decided to just add two more branches to the union query. One for public groups via alias and one for private groups via alias.

[davidwatkins73]

Adding Aliases

Starting from an app group page, click on the Aliases: ... add one link:

You can add multiple aliases. Each time you add an alias it is saved immediately to the database, a confirmation notification will also be displayed.

When you have finished adding aliases click on the close link to see the saved aliases.

Searching

Groups can now be searched for by their alias names. Note: the result shown gives the primary name for the group, not the alias.