July 2005 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[#XWIKI-98] User Stories 4 Independent Query API for XWiki - XWiki.org JIRA
by Ludovic Dubost 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Artem is working on a Google Summer of Code project to build a independent query API for XWiki.. This will define the new query languages for XWiki.. This has an important impact on what xwiki will become.. Feel free to join the discussion on the API http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-98 Ludovic

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Dynamic lists
by Stéphane Laurière 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi XWiki devs, At Mandriva we have the need for a class property type that would be able to handle dynamic lists. Well, the DBList properties are already dynamic, but we'd need something more dynamic. Usage examples: * apply some filter to a list of results fetched from the database, * translate the DBList values returned by a SQL query before presenting them to the user * build lists from other sources than the database (from a web service call etc.) Such lists would be built by a Velocity or Groovy script, declared as an attribute of the class property. What do you think of the feature? Do you have any suggestion on the way it should be implemented? We could either create a new Java type "DynamicList" + new wiki table xwikidynlistclasses, inspired by the "DBList" Java type, or transform the DBList into a "DynamicList" that would handle either Hibernate SQL queries, or Velocity/Groovy scripts. That would be handy also to have the possibility to specify the name of the document containing the script to be executed, if the script is to be reused by several classes. Stéphane and Christophe

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Re: [xwiki-users] Looking for forwarding in Velocity script
by Luis Arias 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi Xavier, I just wanted to let you know that we have a couple of conference projects and I would be interested in discussing / working in this area with you and any other interested users and developers. I am working with a small team to build an event wiki for Connexions which will take place in October and I am porting and extending some networking features that allow organisers to match conference attendants and experts among themselves. I started writing the user stories for this (in French), we could share and discuss them if you are interested. Luis. On 7/28/05, Xavier MOGHRABI <xavier.moghrabi(a)objectweb.org> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I'm trying to create a form in order to register visitors to a conference. > Thus I've created a XWiki class to store data concerning visitors. > I've created this document : > Main.RegistrationClass that contains the class > Main.RegistrationClassTemplate that contains an object of the previous > class > Main.RegistrationClassSheet > > I need to make some verifications when people registering. Thus I've > created a > Document that I called Main.RegistrationNewVisitor that displays a form > and > control data. > > The problem I have is that I don't know with using velocity script how I > can > forward. Thus I've created a javascript script that forward to the desired > page by clicking on the hidden form. > > Any idea ? > > Regards > > -- > Xavier MOGHRABI - Consortium ObjectWeb > Email: xavier.moghrabi at objectweb.org <http://objectweb.org> > Phone: +33 4 76 61 52 35 - Skype ID: xavier.moghrabi.bureau > > > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users(a)objectweb.orgmailing list. > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected] > For general help: mailto:[email protected]?subject=help > ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/wws > > > -- Luis Arias http://www.xwiki.com http://www.innover-entreprendre.net skype : kaaloo +33 6 14 20 87 93 mobile

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Fwd: [xwiki-users] Question about authentication
by Luis Arias 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

This is probably best in the developers list. Maybe Alexis can give you a hand with this. From what I know the user documents *do* have to exist in the wiki. But I'm afraid I don't know enough to point about the LDAP implementation to point you out in the right direction... Luis. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Conway <conway(a)tripadvisor.com> Date: Jul 28, 2005 4:47 PM Subject: [xwiki-users] Question about authentication To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org I'd like to be able to use XWiki with an alternate source for user authentication and I thought creating my own auth service might do the trick. However, on further thought, I'm not sure how this would work - doesn't the XWiki user document still need to exist as a place to store user settings (e.g email notification plugin stores an object there)? I dug around a bit in the LDAP service code, and don't see anywhere where it creates the xwiki user document, so I'm wondering what I'm missing. I was thinking that maybe it should should auth the user then create the user doc if it doesn't already exist. I guess the code/pages I have that register that user could also send a message to xwiki to create the user, but for LDAP user management clients that may not be possible, so I must be missing something. Is there a better way to do auth that I don't know about? Our user data is in a set of DB tables. Thanks, Matt -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users(a)objectweb.orgmailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected] For general help: mailto:[email protected]?subject=help ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/wws -- Luis Arias http://www.xwiki.com http://www.innover-entreprendre.net skype : kaaloo +33 6 14 20 87 93 mobile

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XWiki P2P
by Ludovic Dubost 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, Your feedback is welcome on the P2P XWiki Summer of Code project of Bikash http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/Design+Issues

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Surveys
by Timothee Peignier 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I'm currently trying to create a survey feature : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/Polls Currently, it works without complete translation and a painful piece of code : http://club-beta.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Survey/SatisfactionSurvey I'm facing somes problems : - Translatable property value doesn't exists, useful for ListClass properties. - Separated label and value in select (ListClass). - No getBooleanValue method in BaseCollection. Not real problems : - Lack of documentation. At least commented XWiki API Documentation could be really helpful. - 'Turns You Crazy' API : The difference between Document and XWikiDocument is thin but crucial, same with Class and BaseClass and many others. It's sometimes killing simplicity in the name of abstraction : doc.getxWikiClass().getXWikiClass().getFieldList() So if you could help or give me any hints/advice to add this feature in xwiki, or if an more easy/universal way to add this feature in xwiki exists, tell me. Best regards, Tim -- http://people.tryphon.org/~tim/

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Feedback from Jetty+HSQL xwiki install
by Vincent Massol 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, I've just tried Jeremi's packaging (http://www.xwiki.org/releases/xwiki/xwiki-package-jetty-0-9-840.zip) Well done! This is great and make it very simple to try out XWiki. It's very cool :-) Some small comments: 1/ Remove xwiki.log that should not be there before starting xwiki 2/ What's the difference between ext, lib and extra/lib? 3/ There are licenses in both etc/ and license/ directories. Maybe they could be regrouped together? 4/ In webapps/ there's a index.html~ file that should be deleted 5/ It didn't work when I executed start.bat (see attached log). I had to manually create the logs/ directory. 6/ http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ points to a page with a link to the wiki. It should point directly to the wiki. Actually http://localhost:8080 should point to the wiki IMO. Again those are all very minor. This is a great install. -Vincent

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XML/RPC, renderContent does not return valid HTML
by Jaroslav Pšenička 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi all, just working with XML/RPC interface, namely the renderContent(String token, String spaceKey, String pageId, String content) method. The documentation (on confluence site) says: "If 'content' is provided, then that is rendered as if it were the body of the page (useful for a 'preview page' function)". I expect the method returns valid and complete HTML code as is returned during "preview" of wiki pages. Is this expectation correct? Unfortunatelly, the code returned does not seem to be complete and valid HTML, there are <html> and other formal elements missing (this is a minor problem). The major problem is, that the code does not refer to any stylesheet; the page is rendered in "default" style, where tables has no borders etc. Any hints? Thanks, ~sp

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Ergonomics !
by Ludovic Dubost 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, Thierry Grandsart is an intern working on ergonomics for XWiki. He has been working on studying the different wikis and making some recommandations on the XWiki interface. We'd like to include you in giving us feedback about his proposals and particpating in the discussion around them. He has started publishing a first sketch of a new interface proposal for XWiki at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/Ergonomics Other proposals will follow and will be put up to discussion.. Don't hesitate to comment on the XWiki document or in the JIRA task at http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-109 Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic

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Re: UTF-8 characters (again)
by Artem Melentev 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: > xWiki works with UTF-8 Characters after some modifications, live example is on > http://zh.objectweb.org > > There are some modifications to do in the code of xWiki, you need to configure > xWiki to manage UTF-8 and to use a database without non UTF-8 code. Whether use of non-English _names_ of documents is possible? I have made all that is written in http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/CharactersSets But Russian names of documents displays incorrectly. On zh.objectweb.org too. From a code I have understood, it of that request.getPathInfo and getParametr (for parameters in uri) are not decoded in utf. It so, or I have incorrectly setup xwiki? (or it is servlet api bug?) I set SetCharacterEncodingFilter off by add ignore=false and rewrite XWikiServletRequest.get, getPathInfo, getParameter to decode from ISO-8859-1 tо UTF-8 Names now working fine, but i found next problem: when i click on new,unedited link [newlink], open edit form. In this form field "Parent" fills not decoded. PrepareEditForm.setParent called 2 times, first call is decoded (from PrepareEditForm.reset), second - not decoded (from beenutils). Main questions: 1 That second PrepareEditForm.setParent call for? 2 Why it is not decoded? 3 How i may decode it? Now i`m decode in setParent. This is bad idea, but works.. Soon i will open http://usunet.ru/wiki/ - Ural State University XWiki. ~Environment~: Gentoo Linux, LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" Sun JDK 1.5.0.04, JAVAOPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" Tomcat 5.0.27-r6 DB: empty unicode db on PostgreSQL v8.0.3 (Sorry my English) -- Artem Melentev, UralSU, CS301. jabber: amelentev(a)jabber.ru

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