Support metadata only folders

[stephanjohnson]

What problem are you trying to solve?

When managing metadata where there are a lot of items of different types in a folder, it would be nice to be able to organize them into folders that do not result in the template output creating matching folders. Currently there is only an option to make a folder a Namespace Provider or not.

I have the following metadata in my Service Designer Services Package:

It produces the following template output:

• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\CreateUser\CreateUserCommand[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\GetUserAsync\GetUserAsync[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\UserExists\UserExistsQuery[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\UserContractDto[MappingExtensions].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserActivatedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserArchivedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserCreatedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserDeletedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserFlagRemovedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserFlagSetDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserFlagsRemovedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserRestoredDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\UserSuspendedDomainEventHandler.cs

This is all fine, and exactly as it is supposed to be.

However, my metadata folder feels like it could be a bit more optimized. I would like to group all of the event handlers into a folder, so that, in this case, my service designer still focuses on the commands and queries as the most important visual information. I would like to do something like this:

Except, if I do this, the resulting template output would look like this:

• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\CreateUser\CreateUserCommand[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\GetUserAsync\GetUserAsync[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\UserExists\UserExistsQuery[Handler|Validator].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\Users\DTOs\UserContractDto[MappingExtensions].cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserActivatedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserArchivedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserCreatedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserDeletedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserFlagRemovedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserFlagSetDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserFlagsRemovedDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserRestoredDomainEventHandler.cs
• Verentis.Security.Users.Application\EventHandlers\Users\Domain Event Handlers\UserSuspendedDomainEventHandler.cs

By reducing noise in the metadata, I am increasing noise in the resulting template output.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great if there were an extra option in the Folder Options for Metadata only that helps organize my metadata, but has no impact on the template output.

[JonathanLydall]

Thanks @stephanjohnson,

This makes a lot of sense to me too, I've logged it as something for us to look at as soon as we're able.