7 Mar
2013
7 Mar
'13
8:03 p.m.
Hello everyone, I'm trying to automate Page generation in my client but I'm
stuck on something.
The way it works is a simple form on my client let's my users construct a
Page Title to search for, so:
.../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed
What I'm trying to do is if you get a 404 (and that page that says this
doesn't exist, edit this to create) I create the page via REST commands and
then direct them to the WYSIWYG editor for that new page -
/xwiki/bin/edit/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed - this works pretty much.
The problem: The page doesn't seem to exist yet until they've clicked save
and view on their editor. If I try to open the page I've just made via REST
(at the aforementioned .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed)
it says it still doesn't exist and edit this page to create. What gives?
I'm doing all of this with XMLHTTPRequst and waiting for the 201 status
after the page is supposedly successfully created then redirect them to the
/edit/ page so they can start creating right away.
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8 Mar
8 Mar
10:52 a.m.
Hi Zachary,
in XWiki, a page does not exist until it has been saved at least once. A
workaround you could try would be to create and save the page once, via
REST, then send your user to that same page in edit mode. The user will
actually be editing version 2.1 of the page.
Would this work for you?
Guillaume
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:03 PM, zacharykane <kane.zach(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, I'm trying to automate Page
generation in my client but I'm
stuck on something.
The way it works is a simple form on my client let's my users construct a
Page Title to search for, so:
.../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed
What I'm trying to do is if you get a 404 (and that page that says this
doesn't exist, edit this to create) I create the page via REST commands and
then direct them to the WYSIWYG editor for that new page -
/xwiki/bin/edit/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed - this works pretty much.
The problem: The page doesn't seem to exist yet until they've clicked save
and view on their editor. If I try to open the page I've just made via REST
(at the aforementioned .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Whatever-Name-They've-Typed)
it says it still doesn't exist and edit this page to create. What gives?
I'm doing all of this with XMLHTTPRequst and waiting for the 201 status
after the page is supposedly successfully created then redirect them to the
/edit/ page so they can start creating right away.
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3:40 p.m.
Possibly, I don't think a version offset would matter.
How do you save a page with the REST api? Modify it with the PUT method?
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5:15 p.m.
Playing around with URLs I found a page (notice) that comes up using what
appears to be a purposely hidden "save" action.
/xwiki/bin/view/Main/newmcia?resubmit=%2Fxwiki%2Fbin%2Fsave%2FMain%2Fnewmcia%3Fsrid%3DVYMY1YRY&xback=%2Fxwiki%2Fbin%2Fview%2FMain%2Fnewmcia&xpage=resubmit
The notification is a warning that tells me I might have left an editor open
in another tab/window, my auth token has expired or this might be a hack.
Confirm or Canel?
And the form there submits to this:
/xwiki/bin/save/Main/newmcia?srid=VYMY1YRY
I'm betting XWiki generates that special identification for
organizational/IA purposes and I'm not supposed to create those myself,
right?
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11 Mar
11 Mar
11:54 a.m.
Hi,
you can just sent a PUT request to the following URI:
/rest/wikis/YOURWIKI/spaces/THE_SPACE_WHERE_YOU_WANT_TO_CREATE_THE_PAGE/pages/THE_NAME_OF_THE_PAGE_YOU_WANT_TO_CREATE
the body should be either an XML that follows the schema defined for
the Page element here:
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…
or a an application/x-www-form-urlencoded containing the relevant
fields.
The relevant fields that are taken into account are: title, content,
syntax, parent.
To be more clear suppose you want to create a page Foo in the Main space.
You need to create an XML document like this:
<page xmlns="http://www.xwiki.org">
<title>Foo</title>
<content>
I am foo!
</content>
</page>
and send it, for example, by using curl:
curl -u Admin:admin -H "Content-type: application/xml" -X PUT -d
"(a)thefilecontainingthexmldocument.xml"
http://localhost:8080/xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Main/pages/Foo
Alternatively you can send application/x-www-form-urlencoded by
specifying several -d parameters:
curl -u Admin:admin -X PUT -d "content=this is Foo" -d "title=Foo"
http://localhost:8080/xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Main/pages/Foo
Of course the same can be achieved by writing some Java code and using
HttpClient, or in any programming language or scripting language that
has an HTTP library.
Finally, it's just HTTP
Hope this helps,
Fabio
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Possibly, I don't think a version offset would
matter.
How do you save a page with the REST api? Modify it with the PUT method?
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12 Mar
12 Mar
7:08 p.m.
Well I think I figured out what wasn't working.. Here's what I'm trying to do
with a "thin client" JavaScript application.
var create = 'https://domain/xwiki/rest/wikis/XWiki/spaces/Main/pages/' +
reportType + ' – ' + reportDate + 'T' + reportTime + 'P' +
reportPeriod +
'?method=PUT';
httpRequest.open('POST', create);
httpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
httpRequest.send('title=' + reportType + ' – ' + reportDate + 'T'
+
reportTime + 'P' + reportPeriod + '&content=' + reportType + ' –
' +
reportDate + 'T' + reportTime + 'P' + reportPeriod +
'&parent=Main.WebHome');
What I've discovered is that I want my Page created based upon a template,
that exists already. So I want to add &template=Main.MyTemplate to the
request which doesn't seem to be allowed. If I view Document Index
(/AllDocs) of my wiki I see that the page is listed but has no Last Author,
which I thought was weird.
So leaving that off and creating the Page with only the bare necessities, it
works however I cannot now specify the &template query param on the /edit/
URL to open the document with a template, since it already exists with
content. So is there a way to create a page in this way with a template for
content?
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13 Mar
13 Mar
12:37 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:08 PM, zacharykane <kane.zach(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well I think I figured out what wasn't working..
Here's what I'm trying to do
with a "thin client" JavaScript application.
var create = 'https://domain/xwiki/rest/wikis/XWiki/spaces/Main/pages/' +
reportType + ' – ' + reportDate + 'T' + reportTime + 'P' +
reportPeriod +
'?method=PUT';
httpRequest.open('POST', create);
httpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
httpRequest.send('title=' + reportType + ' – ' + reportDate + 'T'
+
reportTime + 'P' + reportPeriod + '&content=' + reportType + ' –
' +
reportDate + 'T' + reportTime + 'P' + reportPeriod +
'&parent=Main.WebHome');
I don't know why are you complicating things like this...
You can direcly du a PUT request instead of doing a POST to an URI
saying that actually it's a PUT :)
What I've discovered is that I want my Page
created based upon a template,
that exists already. So I want to add &template=Main.MyTemplate to the
request which doesn't seem to be allowed. If I view Document Index
(/AllDocs) of my wiki I see that the page is listed but has no Last Author,
which I thought was weird.
So leaving that off and creating the Page with only the bare necessities, it
works however I cannot now specify the &template query param on the /edit/
URL to open the document with a template, since it already exists with
content. So is there a way to create a page in this way with a template for
content?
The REST page resource doesn't accept any parameter called template.
/edit URIs are a total different things with respect to the REST API URIs.
-Fabio
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5 p.m.
Right, I just wanted to play it safe - I wasn't sure what the XmlHttpRequest
object would allow as far as verbs. It works as intended.
Also, sure the rest doesn't accept templates - that's a shame but oh well.
I'm trying now to get the template content into a created page. I've figured
I can fetch the content of the template page, using a GET, and put that
<content> element's content into the parameter of the create page arguments.
Current tests seem to work out - haven't tried more complicated templates
but header images and subtitles come across.
I mentioned the /edit/ URLs in passing that if you do put certain parameters
(?template= in this case) it will put the template into the WYSIWYG editor
of the specified Page, very slick.
Anyway, if anyone knows of a way to "create pages with templates" that
sounds better than what I described above I'd love to hear it!
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7:13 p.m.
Hi Zachary
2013/3/13 zacharykane <kane.zach(a)gmail.com>
Right, I just wanted to play it safe - I wasn't
sure what the
XmlHttpRequest
object would allow as far as verbs. It works as intended.
Also, sure the rest doesn't accept templates - that's a shame but oh well.
I'm trying now to get the template content into a created page. I've
figured
I can fetch the content of the template page, using a GET, and put that
<content> element's content into the parameter of the create page
arguments.
Current tests seem to work out - haven't tried more complicated templates
but header images and subtitles come across.
I mentioned the /edit/ URLs in passing that if you do put certain
parameters
(?template= in this case) it will put the template into the WYSIWYG editor
of the specified Page, very slick.
There is 2 options to avoid this behaviour.
- First: just add "?editor=inline" in the URL.
- Or, use a class sheet binding if your document is supposed to have an
object (you can see:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Sheet+Module)
Anyway, if anyone knows of a way to "create pages with templates" that
sounds better than what I described above I'd love to hear it!
I hope what I proposed help you.
Louis-Marie
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