12 Apr
2010
12 Apr
'10
7:07 a.m.
Hi Sergiu
Well, that was the other thing that nagged me today. Now I need to manually revert the
documents from the Groovy script back to the Velocity script in order to make it work with
the default blog.
I completely agree there should be a clear separation between the document / content and
the presentation / scripting. But let's have a closer look:
- Presentation can be done through wiki markup I guess (looks like CSS to me)
- Controlling the work flow (create new / edit exiting entry, create / update category,
add / update tags, publish / hide, delete entry etc) can be done through hooks and server
side scripting
- Ajax functionality: needs some server side scripting but I don't know how this would
work on the client side
I don't know how easy or difficult it would be to introduce service side hooks into
XWiki to enable the creation of applications like the blog.
Have fun - Andy
On Apr 11, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 04/11/2010 11:17 PM, Andreas Schaefer wrote:
Hi
After using my Groovy based XWiki Blog I decided that I am not going to pursue this any
further because of these issues:
- Groovy applications still have more limitations than Velocity making it very difficult
to use as an alternative
- It is very difficult to deploy my own Groovy blog application because I have to go over
several hoops to install it (content, plugins, plugin configurations)
- Most of the issues where related to Groovy based Panels which seems not to be possible
- No interest in it
Even though I think that Groovy would be a much better way to script applications like
the Blog XWiki seems not to be ready to embrace it. From my point of view the entrenched
usage of Velocity makes it very difficult to go beyond a simple page script in another
scripting language.
What I'd like is to be able to write such an application solely with
wiki markup, no scripting at all. Something like:
(% class="hfeed single" %)(((
{{withObject type="Blog.BlogPostClass"}}
(% class="blogdate" %)
== {{property name="publishDate"/}} ==
(% class="hentry single-article" %)(((
(% class="entry-content" %)(((
{{property name="content"/}}
)))
)))
{{/withObject}}
)))
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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