Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Add a Script Service for the Component module

While I would be tempted to say +1 for easier access to components, I tend to also notice that this would invite people (including us) in avoiding to write the heavy code in Java and use Velocity instead. There would be almost no motivation to write a script service and the core/component code that we`ll end up executing from velocity will no longer have the checks that the *.api/script service methods had, knowing that they were called from userspace. So this would respect the strategy of offering a script service for the component module, but since the component module is the gateway to all the others, there will no longer be an incentive to respect this strategy for all other (future) modules. While I know that anyone can write a script service that just exposes the component manager, I think my questions is whether or not it is ethical for us to do so by default. Also, if it *is* ethical, then why haven't we done this before? Regarding the old com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponentManager() method [1] (which targets non-componentized Java code), I don`t understand what is its relation with the issue at hand, namely Velocity a the proposed new component script service. As far as I know, you can not currently access components from Velocity and the current $util [2] velocity tool points to com.xpn.xwiki.api.Util (not com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils) which has no such method. Am I missing something? Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi… [2] http://maven.xwiki.org/site/xwiki-core-parent/xwiki-core/apidocs/com/xpn/xw… On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Denis Gervalle <dgl(a)softec.lu> wrote: