3 Apr
2009
3 Apr
'09
10:21 a.m.
On Apr 3, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Sergiu, could you find the email thread again? I'd like to see why I
"opposed" the idea.
Thanks
-Vincent
Hello,
Is there any way to add some code without recompiling xwiki-core
(plugin? component?) that could register a listener for any changes
in
documents (preferably by mask / type, as in "listen for added
comments
on Main.* and Blog.*") and optionally veto (and/or flag for
review?) them?
If not, please consider adding it - it would be a very nice way to
make
writing things like spam- and vandal- filters easier.
It would also allow making such things more modular - if any plugin
could register such a listener, then there could be (for example) two
independent plugins running at once, one handling scenarios like "bad
source" - "bad ip", "possible anonymous proxy", the other
"bad
content"
- "bad words", "structure looks like spam" or "too many
links".
Yes, there is the old notification API in xwiki-core, and the new
observation component that handle this scenario (see
http://maven.xwiki.org/site/xwiki-core-parent/xwiki-core-observation/apidoc…
for the documentation, and
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-localization/s…
for usage example at the end of the file). And yes, this is one of the
(three) best approaches to the anti vandalism project. The veto-ing
part
is not yet written, I remember proposing it initially, but Vincent
opposed the idea, and we didn't need it until now. The strategy for
developing components is to write the essential functionality first,
and
add features when the need occurs, so this veto mechanism might be
added
soon.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu