Re: [xwiki-devs] Adding a customer plugin to the wysiwyg editor

Hi Marius, I'm back on working on this. Maybe you can help me getting-in and tell me something about this mechanism (http://snag.gy/OVUoR.jpg). How are the plugins published at this point? I set up eclipse to debug the java code with the browser gwt dev plugin. Maybe it could be useful for someone, would you like that I document it somewhere? Marius Dumitru Florea wrote > > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we studied the source code of the gwt wysiwyg editor but we found no >> official way to integrate an custom plugin. > > Yes, right now all the plugins are written in Java (GWT) and adding a > new plugin requires rebuilding the editor. We've been wanting to add > support for (dynamic) JavaScript plugins for some time but we didn't > because we focused on other things. > >> >> We have the impression that it should be relatively easy to establish a >> public API for registering customer plugins. >> >> The customer plugin would be delivered as javascript code with a global >> javascript function that implements PluginFactory interface. >> >> The WysiwygEditorConfigClass would have an addition property >> customerPlugins, containing a comma seperate list of strings of the >> PluginFactory method names. >> > >> Do you think that this is doable? > > Yes. I would write a generic JavaScriptPluginFactory (implementing > PluginFactory) and JavaScriptPlugin (implementing Plugin) to serve as > a bridge between GWT and plugins written in native JavaScript. > WysiwygEditorFactory would then iterate the list of JavaScript plugin > names and create a JavaScriptPluginFactory instance for each, passing > the name. The factory would simply create a new JavaScriptPlugin > instance, forwarding the name. The plugin would access the global > JavaScript variable with the given name and take from it the data > needed to implement the Plugin interface. Of course, you need to > define an "interface" for the JavaScript plugins, and they have to bee > able to add event listeners like a GWT plugin. > > A contribution on this topic would be more than welcomed. > > Thanks, > Marius > >> >> Regards >> >> Richard