[xwiki-devs] GSOC idea: RESTful XWiki

[Fabio Mancinelli]

On 5 mars 08, at 16:38, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Currently the logic is spread around all the platform. There is code  
> in
> the Struts actions, in the XWiki giant, in the data model, in  
> templates,
> in documents, in plugins (FileUpload, for example), so writing  
> restlets
> that reuse this spread logic will be very inefficient:
> - search all around the code to see how to do something
> - duplicate code
> - copy the bugs along with the code
> - increase even more the mess
>
> And we can't just completely replace the servlets (and their URLs)  
> with
> the new REST approach, as all the bookmarks and knowledge about the  
> URLs
> would be broken, so people will not upgrade. So we either reimplement
> them using the new app logic layer, or write an URL rewrite engine  
> that
> forwards to the new IRIs.

After your message things are a more clear.
I was just assuming that the "XWiki API" was already the layer you  
were talking about. But it is clearly not the case.

And, of course, I totally agree on having a layer that factors things  
for maximum reuse in different contexts.

So maybe we could rule out the RESTful XWiki, leave the WebDAV one  
(that on the user side is actually a super-set) and replace it with  
what Sergiu was proposing?

WDYT?

Cheers,
Fabio