[xwiki-dev] XEclipse Offline

[Asiri Rathnayake]

On 8/6/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 5, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I have a few doubts that might arise when we're implementing off-line
> operation of XEclipse.
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> 1. Currently, when the user saves a page after editing, no checks are made
> to ensure that if the same page has been modified by someone else at the
> same time. But avoiding this is a problem since that would require us to
> retrieve the page again (to check locks) every-time user tries to save a
> page.
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> You should only retrieve the last modified date and not the full page
> maybe? I don't think doing a server call is an issue. I'd rather have that
> than overwrite changes made on the server...
>
> 2. Also, when a page is retrieved for the first time if there are any
> locks are present, we must convey that information to the user (in the
> extreme case, we can disallow any attempts to modify a page with any locks
> in it).
>
> 3. How permissions should be conveyed to users ? And how to handle them ?
> (currently, this is ignored)
>
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> Good point. I don't think we have this yet. Maybe Catalin could help you
> propose something to add to our XMLRPC API since I believe this is part of
> the Confluence XML RPC API that we just haven't implemented yet. So maybe
> you could implement the part you miss. Maybe Catalin could also help you?
>

I'll work on this along XEclipse off-line, but time constraints might be an
issue. Anyway, we definitely need this.

We can use different icons for all of these situations (for permissions ,
> dirty pages etc.), but that would  require a lot of icons (and we're running
> out of appropriate icons too).
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> For icons, I've been using the Tango icons (
> http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project).
>

This is simply coooool... :)

Thanks a lot.

- Asiri

Thanks
> -Vincent
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