gui prototype: use default values for every property

This increase a lot the probability of building a working flow.

dream/platform/static/src/dream.js

@@ -173,14 +173,32 @@
       enumerable: false,
       writable: false,
       value: function (element) {
-        var element_id = element.id.split('_')[0]
-        priv.plumb.newElement(element, configuration[element_id]);
+        var element_prefix = element.id.split('_')[0]
+        priv.plumb.newElement(element, configuration[element_prefix]);
         $("#" + element.id).bind('click', function() {
           console.log("bind click on window", $(this));
           $( "#dialog-form" ).dialog( "destroy" ) ;
           priv.prepareDialogForElement(element.id, element.id);
           $( "#dialog-form" ).dialog( "open" );
         });
+        // Store default values
+        var data = {}, property_list = configuration[element_prefix]["property_list"] || [];
+        var updateDefaultData = function(data, property_list) {
+          _.each(property_list, function(element, key) {
+            console.log("going to parse property_list, element", element);
+            if(element._class === "Dream.Property") {
+              data[element.id] = element.default;
+            } else if (element._class === "Dream.PropertyList") {
+              data[element.id] = {};
+              var next_data = data[element.id];
+              var next_property_list = element.property_list || [];
+              updateDefaultData(next_data, next_property_list);
+            }
+          });
+        }
+        updateDefaultData(data, property_list);
+        priv.plumb.updateElementData(element.id, {data: data});
+
       }
     });
 
@@ -193,6 +211,13 @@
         priv.plumb.start();
         priv.displayTool();
         priv.initDialog();
+        // save general configuration default values
+        var general_properties = {};
+        _.each(configuration["Dream-Configuration"].property_list, function(element, key) {
+          console.log("dream.start, parsing general property", element.id);
+          general_properties[element.id] = element.default;
+        });
+        priv.plumb.setGeneralProperties(general_properties);
         priv.initGeneralProperties();
       }
     });

dream/platform/static/src/dream_launcher.js

@@ -7,22 +7,22 @@
     var window_id = 1;
     var element_id;
     var id_container = {}; // to allow generating next ids, like Machine_1, Machine_2, etc
-    var property_container = {entity: {id: "entity", type:"string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
+    var property_container = {entity: {id: "entity", type:"string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "Part"},
                               // XXX is it possible not to repeat id ?
-                              mean: {id: "mean", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              distributionType: {id: "distributionType", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              stdev: {id: "stdev", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              min: {id: "min", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              max: {id: "max", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              failureDistribution: {id: "failureDistribution", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              MTTF: {id: "MTTF", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              MTTR: {id: "MTTR", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
+                              mean: {id: "mean", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "0.9"},
+                              distributionType: {id: "distributionType", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "Exp"},
+                              stdev: {id: "stdev", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "0.1"},
+                              min: {id: "min", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "0.1"},
+                              max: {id: "max", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "1"},
+                              failureDistribution: {id: "failureDistribution", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default:"Fixed"},
+                              MTTF: {id: "MTTF", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "40"},
+                              MTTR: {id: "MTTR", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "10"},
                               repairman: {id: "repairman", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              isDummy: {id: "isDummy", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              capacity: {id: "capacity", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              numberOfReplications: {id: "numberOfReplications", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              maxSimTime: {id: "maxSimTime", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
-                              confidenceLevel: {id: "confidenceLevel", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property"},
+                              isDummy: {id: "isDummy", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "0"},
+                              capacity: {id: "capacity", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "1"},
+                              numberOfReplications: {id: "numberOfReplications", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "10"},
+                              maxSimTime: {id: "maxSimTime", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "100"},
+                              confidenceLevel: {id: "confidenceLevel", type: "string", _class: "Dream.Property", default: "0.5"},
     };
     property_container["interarrivalTime"] =  {id:"interarrivalTime",
                                                property_list: [property_container["mean"], property_container["distributionType"]],