[xwiki-users] Changing a document object during a notification

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Tiago Rinck Caveden wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu at xwiki.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>>> Yes, use prenotifications. This means that instead of putting the code
>>> in verify(), put it in preverify(), and use the constructor with 3
>>> arguments.
>> I hit Send to soon, and my notification knowledge is a bit rusty...
>>
>> I mean, when creating the notification rule (DocChangeRule or whichever
>> you're using), use the
>> constructor with 3 arguments, and use true for the second argument, false
>> for the third one. If the
>> Rule doesn't have such a constructor, call setPostverify(false) and
>> setPreverify(true). That's all
>> you need to do.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks, that helped me!
> 
> I have one more question... isn't the EVENT_UPDATE_OBJECT event code ever
> used?
> I only need to execute my code when the object in the page is changed, so I
> made an if with this event but then the code stopped being called. I made an
> Eclipse search over the variable and it didn't find any use all over XWiki's
> source code...
> 

Sorry, that's a bug. See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2105
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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