24 Aug
2013
24 Aug
'13
5:24 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote:
You would implement a custom InputWikiStreamFactory/InputWikiStream
that would take care of converting your set of xml sources into proper
events and use the XAR serializer as output.
XInclude support may be a bit weak there but I found a processor that would map stream to
stream (https://github.com/etourdot/xincproc).
In any case, for attachments, one would also wish base64 encoding (so that files are...
erm... files!) which is not in XInclude so would need a (non-standardized) extension.
Note that there is a REST resource to upload a XAR introduced by Fabio
some time ago.
WikiStream is not going to be some big monolitic module put in XWiki,
it's just a generic API of events to represent wiki elements, then you
have various output/input modules and higher level modules that are
going to choose and input, output, filters and configure all that
before executing the "graph" exactly like the rendering. For you use
case there is several possibilities:
* WikiStream comes with a generic (reflection based) XML format (and
associated parser/serializer) which support any kind of event so you
can represent any element of a wiki using that
* the XAR output module already support outputting a single document
XML (instead of a XAR) and I plan to support the same thing in the XAR
input module.
You can look at the current tests in the WikiStream XAR module
(WikiStream comes with a test framework very similar to the Rendering
test framework minus the cts for now):
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/wiki-stream/tree/master/xwiki-platform-wik…
The current state is a pretty much done core and
most of the API and a
started XAR output module (document/attachment part is pretty much
done, still need to work on generic events for xclass/xobjects). See
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/wiki-stream.
Will this include an uploader for a single xml file (and its inclusions) into a remote
wiki?
That would be the really useful thing that is often breaking for me (I have a
command-line uploader but it seems to create fuss recently). It would probably be better to forget about
Package class and look
directly at wiki stream.
Can you give a little "handbook" for the case of:
- producing a xar from a set of xml sources - uploading a set of xml files
Depends what you mean by upload. If you mean import those XML files as
documents in database then there is several possibilities I guess: you
can either introduce you own REST resource that takes your custom XML
set and then use your custom parser with the coming XWiki database
output module. Another possibility is to generate a XAR on you side
using WikiStream (it does not need to run in XWiki) with your custom
parser as input and the XAR module as output and send it to the wiki
using the existing XAR import resource. We can also imagine a lots of
other ways depending of any other format supported as input of a REST
resource.
?
Thanks in advance.
Paul
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