[xwiki-users] Back-links for custom class instance properties? More general back-link functionality

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Andreas,

On Nov 17, 2007, at 12:49 AM, Andreas wrote:

> Is there a way to get the back-links for properties of a custom  
> class instances?

This is a current limitation. In the future we'd like to implement  
renaming of object properties too.

See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1341

Help is welcome.

Thanks
-Vincent

> The current backlinks infrastructure seems to work only over links of
> ordinary Documents.
> In particular, on line 1507 of com.xpn.xwiki.storeXWikiHibernateStore,
> in the saveLinks function of a recent SVN checkout it says:
>
>                XWikiRenderer renderer =
> renderContext.getWiki().getRenderingEngine().getRenderer("wiki");
>                renderer.render(doc.getContent(), doc, doc,  
> renderContext);
>                links = (List) renderContext.get("links");
> How can this be parameterized, so that links contained in property
> values of custom Class Instances are being included into the links
> variable?
>
>
>
> Example:
> Class Car:
>
> Instance Space1.car1
>  Property "carsThatAreFaster": values: "Space1.car2"
>
> where Space1.car2 is a link to another Car instance. The above
> saveLinks function does not update the BackLinks table with the
> Space1.car2 link.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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