[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Rename Application Manager's SuperClass/SuperDocument tool

[Thomas Mortagne]

2007/12/13, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne at xwiki.com>:
> 2007/12/13, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic at xwiki.org>:
> >
> > Do we agree SuperDocument should extend com.xpn.xwiki.api.Document ? or
> > is it XWikiDocument ?
> > If I understand correctly it is a Document with helper functions to
> > manage the data of one specific class ?
> > I'm wondering if this should not be part of Document itself (with a
> > setting deciding with class is the "main" object of that Document). We
> > already have a value in the document which forces XWiki to instanciate
> > the Document as a specific class (we are using this in Curriki with
> > AssetDocument or in the new space manager).
>
> Maybe. At first I made SuperDocument/ObjectDocument to not touch core
> and because I seen then as two different level : "a document" and "a
> particular document containing an object a type Some.Type". I prefer
> separate them but I understand that these can be merged.
>
> > In any case I'm pro XObjectDocument is we really need an interface for
> > that. I'm +1 to rename Document to XDocument also.
> >
> > Concerning Class, is it an override of "Document" also ?
> > We have already com.xpn.xwiki.api.Class in the API also which is the
> > class part of the Document. How is it different ?
> > Could we use the same mecanism to instanciate a document that is a class
> > as an XClass ? or XClassManager ?
>
> SuperClass is not a override of "Document" and it's generally
> considered (it is used this way by Application Manager and Wiki
> Manager) as singleton like java Class objects.
> com.xpn.xwiki.api.Class is a class object and just that it should not
> contains all that is in ClassManager (like sheet/template concepts,
> force existence of class in wiki it's working...) and all its
> dependencies. I think com.xpn.xwiki.api.Class has to be just the class
> and not take care of Document, wikis...

Sorry I mixed BaseClass and com.xpn.xwiki.api.Class, BaseClass as to
exist but we could consider to replace Class by ClassManager for
public user but do we want Class to contains template/sheet concepts ?
We could move some ClassManager methods to Class.

>
> > Ludovic
> >
> > Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2007/12/12, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne at xwiki.com
> > > <mailto:thomas.mortagne at xwiki.com>>:
> > >
> > >     Hi all,
> > >
> > >     I made a tool to easily manage wiki class and wiki class's objets
> > >     bundled in application manager some times ago. Problem is theses
> > >     tools changed since it's creation and new has very wrong names and
> > >     I would like to rename it.
> > >
> > >     There is two java classes :
> > >
> > >     - SuperClass : manage wiki class with it's attached
> > >     document/sheet/template (assume the wiki class exist in the wiki
> > >     we working on) and give methods to search, etc. in documents
> > >     containing objects of this class
> > >     - SuperDocument : the default implementation overload Document and
> > >     manage one object of a particular wiki class in its document (to
> > >     be able to save or delete it), this class is generally overloaded
> > >     to add some acces methods like getDocuments() in Application java
> > >     class.
> > >
> > >     These tools are also usable from Velocity.
> > >
> > >     For some examples you can view Application Manager plugin
> > >     (Application and ApplicationClass classes) and Wiki Manager plugin
> > >     (XWikiServer and XWikiServerClass classes).
> > >
> > >
> > > It's XWikiApplication and XWikiApplicationClass not  Application and
> > > ApplicationClass.
> > >
> > >     I propose :
> > >     - SuperClass -> ClassManager
> > >     - SuperDocument -> ObjectDocument (or ObjectManager but i don't
> > >     like it because it does not imply object in a document)
> > >
> > >     --
> > >     Thomas Mortagne
> > >
> > >
> > >
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