Add Automation extension type

[wborn]

This type allows for installing automation add-ons such as:

• Groovy Scripting
• Jython Scripting
• JS Scripting

[ghys]

Heads up, this has implications for the UI, docs processing, and website :)

[wborn]

I added this type as per openhab/openhab-addons#7208 (comment).

My JSR223 Groovy scripts didn't work after adding the Groovy JARs to /runtime/lib/ext so I thought let's see if it is easy to create an add-on instead. That only took a couple of hours, so it was easier than expected and can now be removed from my TODO list. 😉

[ghys]

It's a valuable addition for sure, just reminding that this would probably lead to dependent PRs merged in the proper order ;)

[wborn]

Yes it does result in some more work.

The UI already works well except for that it looks a bit bland:

[ghys]

That's the part where I thought it would break 😄

[kaikreuzer]

Imho much better than having it all under "Misc" - so assuming @ghys and @Confectrician will help adapting UI and docs/website, let's merge it 👍 .

[wborn]

I'm looking forward to see what kind of icon @ghys comes up with for this one. 😉

[ghys]

Browsed the entire list of icons twice now. 😄

I think the best option is to go with this one:

Provided we also replace the "Rules" icons from wand_rays to wand_stars:

The stars could be a reference to "magic", i.e. automation...?

As for the blurb below maybe: "Scripting languages and module types for rules" or similar?

[wborn]

I'm fine with that as it indeed does make sense that you need to apply sparkles with a wand. :-)

[kaikreuzer]

Go for it!

[openhab-bot]

This pull request has been mentioned on openHAB Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-setup-jython/53049/172