[xwiki-devs] Error messages + SVN feature (was Re: HelloWorld Class)

Is there any way to make Xwiki's error messages more developer- friendly... because one stupid missing character in velocity, in javascript, in groovy, etc, and the evaluation of the page blows up.

Unfortunately, it just dies with a general error, not even telling you the last line at which it was still parsing in a sane-state. Sometimes to get things working you have to resort to commenting out large portions of text just to find where the error is. Or using "breadcrumbs" (html, or javascript alert()) to figure out how far it got in the page. Granted, the biggest help is to have syntax assisted editing -- which at least prevents mismatched parentheses- and quotation-errors. ... which is why I use vtl-mode in emacs (velocity template language minor mode) and then switch between javascript, html, or normal for major-mode... and then just cut/paste into xwiki.

IMHO, a great future feature is a 'subversion' "publishing bridge" for xwiki, which would let you checkin/checkout a xwiki file in subversion on your local workstation (e.g. using emacs built in subversion intfc, or eclipse's). On the server-end, instead of actually checking in a revision using 'subversion', an xwiki document would be created (or versioned) instead.

Niels http://nielsmayer.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Jerome Velociter <jerome(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > Asiri Rathnayake wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, walido >> <walid.kharroubi(a)hraccess.com> > wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> thanks for your fast answer here's the code of the class >>> (exuse me i don't know how to use the pastebin or tinybin thing) >>> >>> * Groovy Class #* */ > > Looks like a slash is missing here, it should be: > > /* Groovy Class #* */ > > not > > * Groovy Class #* */