Re: [xwiki-devs] Hidden documents

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 15:57, Denis Gervalle <dgl(a)softec.lu> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > Anyone of you will surely agree that the hidden document feature implemented > in the store is very bad. The way this "feature" is implemented should never have been accepted, it just broke an API for something that is not really related to storage... See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3925 and its dependencies. > IMO, it has never been fully implemented, probably in the hope of a better > way to go, and it is so for too long. I think it is the time to take some > decision about it, or I do not see the direction and I do not understand > where we want to go ? > > I see 3 possibilities: >  1) we remove it and found other way to solve the problem it solves, which > are currently limited to the Blog, ColorThemes and Panels applications in a > standard XE. +1 >  2) we keep it as it is, since it could be hard to implement higher in the > current implementation, but then we need to fix the places where it cause > issues. -1, I can see it as a long term solution. It's something to say we will fix it latter it's something else to validate it. Adding a boolean to searchDocument as indicated in http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3925 would already be a lot better than the current situation.

>  3) we implement the feature using another method ? I don't fully understand what is the difference between 1) and 3). > > If we choose 1), early in 3.x release is the probably best moment for it, > since it is a breakage in compatibility, I am -0 on this however. > > If we choose 2), we need to make it work properly by fixing places where we > need to include all document, including hidden one. I have some old patch to > the application-manager to export hidden document (ie: currently the blog > application does not export properly),  to the skinx plugin that does not > apply 'always' skin extensions contained in hidden document, and there is > probably other places. > > If we choose 3) now, what do you proposed to better implement it. I have > read some comments that it was a UI level stuff implemented at the store > level, but I do not see how it could be done better in the current > implementation. > > Moreover, if we keep the feature, I think that it should be exposed somehow > to the admins, allowing the creation of hidden document, but also listing > them, deleting them properly, etc... Concerning the document provided with > XE, I also wonder what could be the rules for hiding them or not ? Why not > also hidding stock document in the XWiki space, just keeping users and some > top level documents ? > > WDYT ? > > -- > Denis Gervalle > SOFTEC sa - CEO > eGuilde sarl - CTO > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs