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

[Asiri Rathnayake]

Hi All,

On 9/8/07, Catalin Hritcu <catalin.hritcu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!)


In my POV, there are no hard & fast rules when it comes to this sort of
issues. We always have to make decisions leading to trade-offs sometimes. If
there is no such thing as a description for a space and if creating a space
actually means creating a WebHome document, setting space description as
WebHome's initial content (only in creation time) will be acceptable. But
this doesn't mean we should change WebHome's content every time the space
description is altered (and there is no such thing as a space description to
be altered). We can document this in xmlrpc saying space description will be
added as WebHome's initial content.

Only change in xeclipse will be to re-label "Description" field as "WebHome
content"....

This is just an opinion.

- Asiri

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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