Hi,
It was not a RTFM answer, one that doesn't help at all, but an answer
that points you to the right location where the answer is. It is our
policy to make the documentation as useful as possible, so that when
somebody has a question, the answer should be available online. If our
online documentation does not cover a question frequently asked, we'd
rather improve the documentation and point to it than answer the same
question over and over again. Answering questions is time consuming both
for the developer that takes time away from writing useful code, and the
user that has to wait several hours for an answer, instead of quickly
reading the documentation. If somebody reads the documentation and still
doesn't find the answer to his problem, then we need to know what
exactly is not clear, and how could we improve the documentation. We
would appreciate if you told us what exactly isn't clear in our
documentation?
Juergen Lorenz Simon wrote:
Hi,
it seems my questions are difficult. Allow me to rephrase:
Will we be able to hook into the XWiki authentication process by
writing a component or plugin for xwiki?
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomA…
says exactly that: it tells you that you must implement the
XWikiAuthService interface and configure xwiki.cfg to point to your
class. It also points to a tutorial that you can follow. Is it still not
clear that you can hook into the login process? It does not use a
component or a plugin (an XWiki plugin), but just a plain java class
implementing an interface.
Will we be able to hook into the XWiki page creation
process by
writing a component or plugin for xwiki?
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Notifications says
exactly that. You can use notifications to intercept the page
modification events and alter the new document before it is saved. As
above, you do not write a component or a plugin, but a java class
implementing an interface and calling a registration method.
Will it be possible to develop and debug said
components without
having to check out and install
the entire xwiki repository content? Or do we need to check out XWiki
Enterprise on Eclipse to develop
and debug said components?
You don't have to download the whole repository. If you use maven (and
you should), just write a short pom.xml, declare a dependency on the
xwiki-core module, and run:
mvn install eclipse:eclipse
This will download all the dependencies and create an eclipse project
you can open with File -> Import -> Existing project into workspace
If you also want the javadocs or sources, use:
mvn install eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true
The first time you run this, it will take a while, since lots of
dependencies must be downloaded.
On 07.11.2008, at 13:17, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Juergen Lorenz Simon
wrote:
Thanks for the RTFM,
now can I get some answers, please? :)
What part from the docs do you not
understand?
Thanks
-Vincent
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