Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSOC] Google Android Client for XWiki

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Thomas Mortagne <

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe > &lt;chamikaw(a)gmail.com> > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Mortagne > > &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe > >> &lt;chamikaw(a)gmail.com> >> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Mortagne > >> > &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi Chamika, > >> >> > >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe < > >> chamikaw(a)gmail.com&gt; > >> >> >> >> > Hi all, > >> >> > > >> >> > I've finished development of the XWiki Android Client. I also > finished > >> >> XWiki > >> >> > REST library unit tests and instrumentation tests for the UI > >> components > >> >> will > >> >> > be added soon. > >> >> > > >> >> > Here is a demo of the application.(This demo is captured using

> >> >> Android > >> >> > emulator which may result slow response than an actual device) > >> >> > ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEM0iNMnTE ) > >> >> > > >> >> > Please give me your feedback so that I can improve the project. > >> >> > >> >> Very nice video ! > >> >> > >> >> Here is what seems to be missing before a first release IMO: > >> >> * I can see an object viewer but no class viewer > >> >> > >> > Since classes list of a wiki is very large, everytime UI fails to > load. > >> > Therefore I avoided putting it. Library works fine. > >> > >> Listing classes is one thing but what I'm actually talking about is > >> having a third tab when you edit a document to edit just the class > >> stored in this document like you can edit the objects stored in that > >> document. For example in XWiki standard UI when you edit a document > >> you can have several editors: wiki, wysiwyg, objects, class, rights. > >> > > > > If you are asking for class editor, I think it doesn't provide with

> > REST (

> ). > > There is no PUT or POST method support for adding properties to a

> > I can see on >

I checked the java class files in the given source. But I couldn't see

method which implements @PUT or @POST in ClassResources. If they have already implemented it, can you give me the information about it?

> > > > > Since you are asking for a 3rd tab for classes, I developed a view for > > showing list of classes used in that page and properties of the

Since many components are already developed it's not a very big deal to

the class of the document.I'll change it as you preferred. But editing cannot be implemented because REST doesn't have that. same problem mentioned above. > > > > > > >> > >> About the issue you have here you could have the exact same with

> >> and even objects, maybe you could add some pagination in your UI to > >> not load everything at once. > >> > > I hope to improve additional features like these after GSOC is over.

> > said I'll contribute to this project continuously. > > > > > >> > >> > > >> > * the UI does not allow to edit (except for attachment and

> >> >> but does the library allows it ? > >> >> > >> > Yes library allows it. I added editing content using object

> in > >> my > >> > recent push. This component was developed early but have some

> Now > >> > it's working fine. Go to object View and select an object to edit

> >> > content. > >> > > >> > > >> >> * did you had time to implement some caching ? even if you don't

> >> >> edition yet would still be nice to cache some pages and check

> >> >> the scene if the current page changed on server to avoid > >> >> re-downloading it when you go to page1 then page2 and then go back

> >> >> page 1. > >> >> > >> > Sometimes I used caching but there are many places which will

> the > >> > performance by caching. Sorry I'm little bit busy these days and > couldn't > >> > find time to do that. I will surely improve caching later. > >> > > >> > > >> >> * is https supported ? > >> >> > >> > Since you are not advised me to look into https I didn't setup

> >> classes > >> > yet. But https is possilbe in Android development. > >> > >> Since supporting https is trivial in Java I did not expected it to be > >> a lot more work actually. > >> > >> > > >> > > >> >> * in the setup I see you have only the host/port as server > >> >> information, as we discussed some time ago I think it would be

> >> >> to let the user put the full base URL (http://host:port

> >> >> of the REST service (but you can have a wysard to help generate

> >> >> URL), that's because some part of the URL can be changed by > >> >> configuration and it also answer my previous question about https

> >> >> guess > >> >> * is it too big for the GSOC to have the server setting part as an > >> >> Android account ? would be super nice since it would allow several > >> >> application to use the same account to access a wiki. At worst if

> >> >> looked at it it would be nice to put what you found some far in a > >> >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ page and same note

> any > >> >> other TODO you have in mind that you could not finish > >> >> > >> > I think there is no time left to work in GSOC. But I like to > contribute > >> > XWiki Android continuously. I'll get more free time after my > internship > >> > ends( will take another three/four weeks). Then I'll work on this. > >> > >> That would be great ! > >> > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Some suggestions for the demo: > >> >> * would probably be nicer to do the demo with a well known wiki

> >> >> xwiki.org or myxwiki.org > >> > > >> > I'll give a demo using one. > >> > > New demo uses page accession to www.xwiki.org > > Here is the new demo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvuBygvZMU ) > > > > > >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Did not had much time to look at the code of the library yet but

> >> >> sure do next Monday. > >> >> > >> > It's ok :) > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I can see on

> >> >> you have xwiki-rest-gson-model, xwiki-rest-model-simplexml and > >> >> xwiki-rest-simplexml-model so which one is teh right form ? As I

> >> >> you already I think you should have > >> >> > >> >> - xwiki-rest-model > >> >> -- xwiki-rest-model-gson > >> >> -- xwiki-rest-model-simplexml > >> >> > >> > As you said I > >> > renamed xwiki-rest-simplexml-model to xwiki-rest-model-simplexml. I > >> didn't > >> > touch the gson model lately. So no changes are made to gson model. > >> > >> That's not exactly what I said: xwiki-rest-model should be pom > >> artifact with the two others as sub projects. The goal of my proposal > >> being to regroup the different models just renaming one of them is

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