Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Use jsTree as the standard library for creating trees in XWiki

Hi devs, There are a couple of places in XWiki were a tree widget is used or needed: document index, WYSIWYG editor wiki page linking, XAR import, navigation panel, database tree list, report step of Distribution Wizard, extension upgrade when asking confirmation to clean unused pages, etc. But we don't have a standard / recommended tree widget / library. We use either SmartClient which is very heavy or a custom tree based on Prototype.js. Since we want to ditch the heavy SmartClient tree and we decided to move away from the dead Prototype.js to jQuery I propose to use jsTree ( http://www.jstree.com/ ) as the standard / recommended library for creating trees in XWiki. It is one of the best and most used tree widgets written using jQuery. I have used jsTree on the File Manager ( http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/File+Manager+Applicati… ) and it was a positive experience. Moreover, there are other extensions based on, like the Dynamic Hierarchy Macro ( http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Dynamic+Hierarchy+Macro ). My plan is: * include jsTree in the default distribution (through a webjar dependency); it won't be loaded by default, obviously; you'll have to use Require.js to load it. * start rewriting the current trees using jsTree Here's my +1. Thanks, Marius