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

[Catalin Hritcu]

Correcting myself

On 9/7/07, Catalin Hritcu <catalin.hritcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
I meant the opposite, changing the space description should not (under
any circumstance!) change the content of WebHome. This would be just
stupid as the WebHome page is usually the most important page in a
space.

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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