[xwiki-users] Accessing Groovy function from velocity

[Vincent Massol]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:

> 2007/2/16, Esbach, Brandon <Esbachb at tycoelectronics.com>:
>> A small note about the separate groovy page (I made note of this  
>> in the
>> page you put in JV):
>> When you create the page, it cannot have "<%" and "%>".  If it does,
>> then it won't work (understandable, a lot of other languages work  
>> this
>> way when a separate file used as a source, eg Javascript).
>
> Right, thanks for the addition.
>
>> However, this then results in your class being shown in plain text in
>> the saved document (this occurs in B2 and B4, can't test B3 as  
>> it's not
>> running on our test environment anymore) - which I would not like  
>> to see
>> user's having any view access to.
>> I'm unsure of what to suggest around this, or if it is even a  
>> concern.
>> Naturally, if "parseGroovyFromString" would allow the "<%%>" then the
>> page would be protected by default from the user (being correctly
>> assessed as a Groovy page), BUT this is not quite a good solution.
>
> A page with "<%%>" is not be protected by default, the only difference
> is that the content is not displayed but executed if the page has been
> saved by a user with programming rights (UWPR).
> I've added a small trick in the tutorial to prevent a groovy class
> from being displayed as plain text, but you can't prevent it from
> being edited by a basic user without using appropriate page rights.
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/ 
> GroovyClassHelloWorldTutorial

I've added:

"Notice the trick of putting a Velocity comment in the Groovy comment  
so that the code is not parsed by Velocity."

Hope this is correct...

Thanks
-Vincent