[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] New generic Action for calling an API and returning the result as XML

[Vincent Massol]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

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> I'm not sure we need such a general action. OK, there are some use
> cases, but should we allow calling any public method in the API? Then
> why not doing something better, and write a SOAP wrapper for the API,
> or reuse the XMLRPC one?

Because the XMLRPC one is far from having the required API but we  
could beef it up. The GWT one is closer to the needs.

I didn't mean to create a new API but rather have a generic bridge to  
reuse the existing API but I can see how it'd be better to reuse the  
GWT/XMLRPC one.

Thanks
-Vincent

> On 6/11/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>> I talked briefly to ludovic and he says we could reuse our GWT API.
>> We would need some wrappers in order to be able to call it directly
>> (for the serialization for example). That would allow us to focus on
>> having one AJAX API.
>>
>> -Vincent
>>
>> On Jun 11, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm writing a treeview (using the yahoo treeview javascript api) to
>> > display the list of all pages of a wiki and in order to have good
>> > performances I need to call a server-side method for getting all
>> > children pages of a given page (so that the nodes or the treeview
>> > are loaded dynamically). In order to implement this I thus need a
>> > new XWiki Action.
>> >
>> > Now I think it would be good to generalize this common need. As we
>> > add more Ajax to our UIs we'll need more and more calls from JS to
>> > the server side.
>> >
>> > I'm thus proposing a generic ExecuteXMLAction (or AjaxAction or
>> > another name) that would do the following:
>> >
>> > * Get the class, method and parameter to execute from the HTTP  
>> request
>> > * Verify that the class is in the api package (to prevent security
>> > issues)
>> > * Call the method using introspection
>> > * Return the result as XML using XStream (it generates
>> > automatically XML from any java object)
>> >
>> > Note: I'd need to define the format for sending the information in
>> > the request. Not sure about which format to use.
>> >
>> > WDYT?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > -Vincent
>> >
>> >
>> >
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