[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?
19 Dec
2009
19 Dec
'09
10:52 a.m.
Hello Devs,
Currently xwiki-officeimporter contains logic for mainly two different
tasks:
1. Manage the back-end openoffice process (and provide document conversion
facilities).
2. Perform the actual transformation from office documents to wiki pages.
(depends on point 1)
xwiki-officeimporter module's code might appear a bit complex because of
this mix up. Also I believe openoffice related code might have to be reused
once we introduce an office-exporter module.
I was wondering if it would be beneficial (in the long run) to extract out
openoffice related code into a separate module (xwiki-openoffice). The main
concern I have is that currently openoffice related code is inside
org.xwiki.officeimporter.openoffice package which have to be changed to
org.xwiki.openoffice if we are to extract out a xwiki-openoffice module,
this could break a few things in public API.
Even if we decide to do so, I don't think any of us (devs) would be able to
do this within 2.2M1 time period. But I thought it's better to discuss about
it a little now.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
- Asiri
19 Dec
19 Dec
10:58 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?
Hi Asiri,
Right now I don't see any use case for reusing an openoffice module
outside of the office importer/exporter.
My current view:
- we could extract this module but as a nested submodule of xwiki-
officeimporter (could be renamed xwiki-office and have 3 submodules:
xwiki-office-importer, xwiki-office-exporter and xwiki-office-
openoffice)
- however I think it's a bit overkill to do so since I don't see
reusing the officeimporter without the openoffice module, etc.
Thus my current thinking is that I don't see the interest of doing so
and it's probably enough to make whatever separation is required
through package names (you already have the openoffice package which
sounds fine enough to me).
Thanks
-Vincent
On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hello Devs,
Currently xwiki-officeimporter contains logic for mainly two different
tasks:
1. Manage the back-end openoffice process (and provide document
conversion
facilities).
2. Perform the actual transformation from office documents to wiki
pages.
(depends on point 1)
xwiki-officeimporter module's code might appear a bit complex
because of
this mix up. Also I believe openoffice related code might have to be
reused
once we introduce an office-exporter module.
I was wondering if it would be beneficial (in the long run) to
extract out
openoffice related code into a separate module (xwiki-openoffice).
The main
concern I have is that currently openoffice related code is inside
org.xwiki.officeimporter.openoffice package which have to be changed
to
org.xwiki.openoffice if we are to extract out a xwiki-openoffice
module,
this could break a few things in public API.
Even if we decide to do so, I don't think any of us (devs) would be
able to
do this within 2.2M1 time period. But I thought it's better to
discuss about
it a little now.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
- Asiri
11:55 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?
On 12/19/2009 10:52 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hello Devs,
Currently xwiki-officeimporter contains logic for mainly two different
tasks:
1. Manage the back-end openoffice process (and provide document conversion
facilities).
2. Perform the actual transformation from office documents to wiki pages.
(depends on point 1)
xwiki-officeimporter module's code might appear a bit complex because of
this mix up. Also I believe openoffice related code might have to be reused
once we introduce an office-exporter module.
I was wondering if it would be beneficial (in the long run) to extract out
openoffice related code into a separate module (xwiki-openoffice). The main
concern I have is that currently openoffice related code is inside
org.xwiki.officeimporter.openoffice package which have to be changed to
org.xwiki.openoffice if we are to extract out a xwiki-openoffice module,
this could break a few things in public API.
Even if we decide to do so, I don't think any of us (devs) would be able to
do this within 2.2M1 time period. But I thought it's better to discuss about
it a little now.
Let me know what you think.
Will this module be useful outside the import/export feature? Can you
think of any standalone usage?
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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6:12 p.m.
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Hi,
Will this module be useful outside the import/export feature? Can you
think of any standalone usage?
Other than import / export features, No. What I had in mind is something
like what vincent suggested. I also have to agree that doing this kind of a
separation just for the sake of modularizing might be an overkill at this
point.
However, if we introduce an xwiki-office-exporter module, we definitely do
not want that module to depend on xwiki-office-importer module so that it
can consume openoffice services (that doesn't sound right).
So it seemed logical that we extract out an xwiki-office-openoffice (like
vincent has suggested) module which will be consumed by both
xwiki-office-importer and xwiki-office-exporter modules.
Thanks.
- Asiri
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New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?
Hi,
On 12/19/2009 7:12 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hi,
Will this module be useful outside the import/export feature? Can you
Same issue here, why would you need the exporter as a separate platform
module?
IMO, you should have a single platform module for the office
import/export functionality, and have the server management, importer
and exporter as nested modules.
Even if this proves to be insufficient in the future, you should not
hurry the transition today since there's no actual roadmap for the
exporter or other possible features.
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotaru
think of any standalone usage?
Other than import / export features, No. What I had in mind is something
like what vincent suggested. I also have to agree that doing this kind of a
separation just for the sake of modularizing might be an overkill at this
point.
However, if we introduce an xwiki-office-exporter module, we definitely do
not want that module to depend on xwiki-office-importer module so that it
can consume openoffice services (that doesn't sound right).
So it seemed logical that we extract out an xwiki-office-openoffice (like
vincent has suggested) module which will be consumed by both
xwiki-office-importer and xwiki-office-exporter modules.
Thanks.
- Asiri
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5:24 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?
Hi,
Same issue here, why would you need the exporter as a separate platform
module?
IMO, you should have a single platform module for the office
import/export functionality, and have the server management, importer
and exporter as nested modules.
This is what vincent has suggested (is it not?) and I also agree.
Even if this proves to be insufficient in the future,
you should not
hurry the transition today since there's no actual roadmap for the
exporter or other possible features.
Yes, this is not something urgent and for a fact I won't have time to make
this transition at this point. This is why I started a discussion rather
than a vote or proposal.
Thanks.
- Asiri
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotaru
Thanks.
- Asiri
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