tools-only Binding into UI - UI Renderes
UI Agent core works with abstract representation of the Data UI Block.
They can be rendered using pluggable GUI component system renderers, and integrated into the GUI of the Controlling assistant.
Renderer can be Server-Side, so rendering into final component system markup happens in UI Agent backend, and its output is eg. html then, which
can be directly used in the frontend.
Server side renderes can be developed as a separate python modules, and plugged into UI Agent backend, see development guide.
Second possibility is Client-Side rendering, where output from UI Agent backend is JSON conforming defined JSON Schema,
and rendering itself happens on client side. How are these definitions delivered into frontend depends on the Controlling assistant architecture/framework.
We provide renderers for several UI component systems:
- Server-Side
- JSON - implemented in the UI Agent Core, default one, produces UI definitions conforming defined JSON Schema used eg. in Client-Side renderers.
- RHDS - produces Red Hat Design System Web Components html
- Client-Side
- PatternFly NPM - produces PatternFly React components
Besides rendering itself, output of the UI Agent also contain structured UI component configuration. It can be used for advanced UI features, like live data updates from backend, manual selection of visualized fields etc.