As per the vocabulary, the Registry is designed as a storage place for apps outside of ui-dashboard to register resources. These will then become available to dashboard for the purposes of dynamic interactions between different frontend apps.
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Here the index.js file in ui-licenses consumes the event 'ui-stripes-registry-loadLOAD_STRIPES_REGISTRY', and then triggers a function which sets up the license resource within the registry:
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A RegistryResource is a class containing information about a particular resource of the registry. It has fields that are technically publically available, but they should only be accessed through the requisite getters and setters.
Once https://github.com/tc39/proposal-private-methods#private-methods-and-fields or equivalent become available and supported, these fields should be made private. This class contains the following methods with which to interact with it:
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getLink/setLink are implemented, but their shape is not yet finalised in generality. It is HIGHLY recommended that these are not utilised, and any early implementors confine their use to get/set for ViewResource and ViewResources. |
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