René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Inconsistency in `ui`, docs and python `ui_server`","articleBody":"## Expected Behavior \r\n\r\nI would expect that the react app, python server, and docs are consistent in how they implement or (for the docs) describe how the registry is ingested.\r\n\r\n## Current Behavior\r\n\r\nRight now:\r\n1. **Docs**: The docs suggest that the [UI loads a JSON dump of the registry](https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/0f9d115f34dafadd87f18c97d2bfe5d592842f9d/docs/reference/alpha-web-ui.md?plain=1#L82)\r\n2. **Python App**: The python app appears to use `get_registry_dump` to produce a [JSON dump of the registry](https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/master/sdk/python/feast/ui_server.py#L108), but `get_registry_dump` is never called. Instead the UI fetches the `registry_proto` from `/registry` (see [here](https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/0f9d115f34dafadd87f18c97d2bfe5d592842f9d/sdk/python/feast/ui_server.py#L40)  and [here](https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/0f9d115f34dafadd87f18c97d2bfe5d592842f9d/sdk/python/feast/ui_server.py#L74)).\r\n3. **UI**: `useLoadRegistry` looks like it used to [parse json](https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/0f9d115f34dafadd87f18c97d2bfe5d592842f9d/ui/src/queries/useLoadRegistry.ts#L34) -- as in #2352 -- but then #3208 replaced the `json` with the protobuf registry\r\n\r\n## Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\nNA\r\n\r\n### Specifications\r\n\r\n- Version: `main`\r\n\r\n## Possible Solution\r\n\r\nIf the intent of #3208 was to replace the json registry with the protobuf version, then the solution would be to:\r\n1. Update the docs to make this clear\r\n2. Update the python `ui_server` so it doesn't appear to produce the JSON dump via `get_registry_dump` \r\n\r\nOf these solutions, the first (updating docs) is probably the most valuable to the community.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bjakubowskiVNSNY","@type":"Person","name":"bjakubowskiVNSNY"},"datePublished":"2023-02-15T20:49:23.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/3497/feast/issues/3497"}