Re: [xwiki-devs] [proposal] Add countDocuments API method, add 'hidden' document property

Hi devs, The first proposal is about introducing two $xwiki.countDocuments methods, one that accepts a simple hql query, and one that accepts a parametrized query and a list of parameter values. These work like searchDocuments, but instead of prefixing the query fragment with 'select doc.fullName from XWikiDocument as doc', it will prefix it with 'select count(*) from XWikiDOcument as doc'. This will allow to count documents without using a programming-protected query, and without retrieving all the documents and count the results. Such a method is needed for paging results, for example.

The second proposal is a temporary hack for hiding documents. The idea is to add a new field in the XWikiDocument class, 'hidden', which will be automatically used in searchDocuments and countDocuments to filter out special documents. This is a workaround until we will be able to tag special documents or spaces, and will allow to create special documents needed for an application inside the main application's space, instead of the generic XWiki space. Such hidden pages won't appear in normal search results, the index page or the navigation panel.

To show these documents (for admins, for example) we could add another searchDocuments method which accepts a boolean parameter that enables or disables the filter on the 'hidden' property.