[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWikiXmlRpcClient.searchRegexPageId()

Hi devs, I was discussing with Sergiu, relating to http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XECLIPSE-106 The bug is that when XEclipse is connected to a large wiki, of the order of 5000+ pages, and when ContentAssist is triggered from the editor (using Ctrl+Space, with cursor inside [] tag), it enters a very large loop, and hence is very slow. I found out that :- 1) http://maven.xwiki.org/site/xwiki-core-parent/xwiki-core-xmlrpc-parent/xwik… <http://maven.xwiki.org/site/xwiki-core-parent/xwiki-core-xmlrpc-parent/xwiki-core-xmlrpc-client/apidocs/org/xwiki/xmlrpc/XWikiXmlRpcClient.html#search%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Integer%29> Searches for the the content as well as page id. Therefore, as XWikiXmlRpcClient.search("WebHome", 10) returns :- Blog.WebHome Main.RssFeeds Main.WebHome Panels.PanelWizard Panels.WebHome ... etc which is not what I require. 2) http://maven.xwiki.org/site/xwiki-core-parent/xwiki-core-xmlrpc-parent/xwik… is being used in the current implementation(1.4+). This first fetches all the PageIds of the wiki. And then, on the client's end, XEclipse searches for the match with String.startsWith For XWiki Versions less than 1.4, there is a nested for-loop implementation using getSpaces() and getPages(), which is even worse. This is very slow, and large amount of data transfer is required over the network. So, with the backing of Sergiu and Florin :), I propose a new XML-RPC function List<SearchResult> searchRegexPageId(String regex, Integer maxResults, Boolean includeContent) The function is pretty much self-explanatory, with only the PageId's that match regex are being returned, and includeContent checks if Content is to be included for the search. I really don't know if this function would be of use anywhere else but for this application. It would be good to know. Venkatesh Nandakumar Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee