9 May
2019
9 May
'19
9:10 a.m.
Hi Simon,
On 7 May 2019, at 08:21, Simon Urli
<simon.urli(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on allowing inline editing on new wikimacros.
Why only on wikimacros? We also need to be able to edit existing wikimacros to make them
inline-editable.
My first challenge right now is to cope with the
problem of inserting the macro content and allowing to inline edit it.
In order to do so, I propose to create two new dedicated macro:
- wikimacrocontent: would allow to insert and inline edit a wiki macro content
- wikimacroparameter: the same for a parameter.
The idea would be to be able to write something such as:
{{velocity}}
{{wikimacrocontent/}}
This is a content of $xcontext.macro.content.length() characters.
{{/velocity}}
I don’t understand. The content is "This is a content of
$xcontext.macro.content.length() characters.” but it’s outside of “{{wikimacrocontent/}}”,
is this a typo? Did you mean:
{{wikimacrocontent}}
This is a content of $xcontext.macro.content.length() characters.
{{/wikimacrocontent}}
?
So the purpose of those macros would be twofold:
1. to ease the insertion of macro content/parameters (no need to always use
{{velocity}}$xcontext.macro.content{{/velocity}}
What is $xcontext.macro.content? I’ve never used that when writing wiki macros.
2. to create the dedicated metadata around the
content and to be processed during wikimacro rendering to allow inline editing
I don’t see any start/end. Why not:
{{inlineEditable}}
My content that is inline editable
{{/inlineEditable}}
?
Another approach is to use scripting, as in:
$xcontext.macro.startInlineEditableContent()
My content that is inline editable
$xcontext.macro.stoptInlineEditableContent()
Or using velocity macros:
#startInlineEditableContent
My content that is inline editable
#stoptInlineEditableContent
Yet another idea would be to have a macro xclass parameter to make the whole content
inline editable (checkbox), and the 2 approaches above would be when you need fine-grained
details (ie not have the whole content inline editable).
Question: how is this done on other projects already using the concept of inline editable
wiki macros? (I know one that I think you looked at Simon, but I don’t know how they did
it :)).
Thanks
-Vincent
Of course those macro would be only to be used inside
a wikimacro.
I started to develop the wikimacroccontent, so I have a first working POC, but I'd
like to know WDYT about this.
I would also be really happy if you could give me some wikimacro examples where the
inline editing would make sense, so I could use it in my tests.
Thanks,
Simon
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Simon Urli
Software Engineer at XWiki SAS
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