[xwiki-devs] XECLIPSE-21 : [actually - space description ignored in back-end xmlrpc]

[Catalin Hritcu]

Hi Vincent,

On 9/7/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> Hi Asiri,
>
>
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> I had a discussion with Catalin about this issue and according to him XWiki
> does not have a notion of a space description. How this situation to be
> handled ?
>
> 1. Froget about space description in xeclipse ?
>
> Nope :)
>
If you think it's worth it then add this feature to xwiki. Trying to
fake it won't do.

> When you create a space you actually create a WebHome document. So the space
> "description" is actually the WebHome content.
>
> WDYT?
>
[snip]

This is not a solution (to what I consider a non-problem ... what's
the purpose of the description anyway?). Nobody will expect that
changing the WebHome document will also change the space description.

Catalin

> 2. Call it initial HomePage content and add this description to space's home
> page at the back-end xmlrpc. <-- bad since we should not be modifying xmlrpc
> interface for every little problem.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Yes, see above.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
> On 9/6/07, Asiri Rathnayake <asiri.rathnayake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > XECLIPSE-21 complains that space description set on the space creation
> page (on xeclipse) is not added to the space's home page. But the actual
> problem is that addSpace() xmlrpc intentionally ignores space description .
> I think catalin worked on this and  he has mentioned about this on the
> method comments. Anyway, i'm attaching a patch with this mail that would fix
> it. Catalin, is there a particular reason to ignore the space description ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Asiri
>
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