December 2008 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XE 1.8
by Vincent Massol 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Time for the new roadmap definition. Here's a proposal. Note that I've discussed the points below with all people I've put as leads. Of course if anyone from the community/committers want to implement additional stuff you're most welcome :) * Finish new rendering: Continue Macro rewrite: rss, graph and more. - Lead: Dan Miron * Finish new rendering: Add embedded doc support + converter from 1.0 syntax to 2.0 + various leftovers - Lead: Thomas Mortagne * Office Importer (all types: word, excel, powerpoint, etc). Available from the WYSIWYG editor too. - Lead: Asiri * Working JCR/Query Manager - Lead: Artem * Finish WYSIWYG editor (UI + bug fixes + missing features). - Lead: Marius/Anca * MS Office Plugin - Lead: Florin. * Start design work on new Application Manager (ability to package in a XAR: pages, external libraries, skin extensions, resources, macros, components, etc + ability to list/install/remove/upgrade applications + ability to install from a remote repo) - Lead: Thomas Mortagne/Jean- Vincent * Work on usability/navigation/UI improvements (like redesign special pages: WebHome, AllDocs, Tags, etc, improve navigation with a treeview panel, autosuggest in search box, etc). We need to define 3-4 items we want in priority. Lead: Jean-Vincent with Laurent/Guillaume * Invitation: backporting the invitation work done in XWS to XE. Lead: Jerome * French XE (was supposed to be done for 1.7) - Lead: Jean-Vincent with Thomas Eveilleau's help * MediaWiki import - Lead: Vincent with Asiri * Drag and drop spaces/pages in the AllDocs treeview to reorganize pages and spaces - Lead: Marius/Anca * Revamp the xwiki.org web site to focus on XE only (for ex main page should only list XE with aggregated feature list) so that we show that we have only one product but various add-ons. Lead: Vincent (note: I need to make a proposal for this) * Skin extensions/Interface extension finalization + Template/Skin cleanup. Lead: Sergiu + Jerome * Internal refactoring to redesign interfaces and transform them into components (Model, Actions, URLs, Velocity Bridge, etc). Lead: Vincent Let me know what you think and if ok I'll put it up on http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Roadmap If we can do all this XE 1.8 will be a great release, possibly our greatest :) Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [RFC] Interface Components, or Where to put core skin extensions?
by Sergiu Dumitriu 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi devs, While working on a UI feature that makes use of skin extensions (both script and style), I was faced with a difficult choice: where to put these extensions? The difficulty comes from several factors: - This is a small feature that doesn't deserve its own application - Yet, it does not fit in any of the existing applications - I don't want to put the js and css in Albatross, as it was done until now - Resource-based extensions are not as flexible as document-based ones, and I'd still need a .jar module to stick them to. Since this is just the first in a long series of such small extensions, leading to a simpler and more modular skin mechanism, I think we should take a decision. A while back, when designing Interface eXtensions, I also proposed Interface Components, which is exactly what I would like to do (as the packaging, since the code is already structured like a component). See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/InterfaceExtensions#HAfterwards So, the choices are: 1. Stick to the past and put the code in Albatross, registering it in platform-web/javascript.vm and stylesheet.vm. 2. Put the files as resource skin extensions inside xwiki-core. 3. Force the documents into an existing application, for example administration or enterprise-wiki. 4. Create a new application for holding Interface Components. 5. Create a new application for each IC. Currently, my preference is +1 for 5, with a +0 for 4 and -1 for the rest. Here's some of my motivations: 1. is dead wrong. This is what we've been doing until now, and we managed to overwhelm the skin with resources, putting a hard requirement on Albatross, registering no less than 14 global javascript files, most of the times unneeded, but hard to remove since nobody knows where and how they are used. If a bug is found, we need to redeploy the whole skin and wait for the next XE release, although it only affects one small part of the wiki. This also ties the platform to the skin. And it is completely not modular. 2. is dead wrong too. What does the core have to do with CSS??! 3. is slightly better. Since the SX are documents, they should be in an application. enterprise-wiki used to be the catch-all place to put documents, but we all decided that it must be split into modular applications. Plus, this is not XE specific, but it can be used in any product. administration is not suited either, since this has nothing to do with the wiki administration. The other existing apps are even less suited. 4. is a good alternative. The problem with only one application is that it is not modular enough. We must release the whole bunch when only one component was changed, which leads to numerous releases, or delayed releases until enough bugs have been found and fixed, which prevents users from benefiting of already solved bugs. The advantage is that we don't have to create numerous tiny projects in Jira. 5. is the best alternative when thinking of the future. With a good Interface Components manager, and a good Application Manager, installing and upgrading applications will be very easy. This solves the problems of 4, since each app can be released as soon as its bugs are solved, and auto-updated on all clients in no time. The problem is that we would need a lot of tiny Jira projects, each with its own release cycle. This is not a code problem, but a infrastructure one. In the future we should drop Jira (which IMO is much too company-oriented than umbrella-oriented), and replace it with our own infrastructure: interface.xwiki.org, as a repository of interface components, where each component has its own space, including our future agile project management tool. WDYT? Anything against option 5? If no, we'll need to decide some more details, as to where to put ICs in the svn repo, where to list them in the wiki, how to name them, etc. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

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[xwiki-devs] Create users/groups programmatically
by Juergen Lorenz Simon 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, I'm trying to create wiki users and groups programmatically. The problem arises in integration of XWiki with a portal solution. The users log in with the portal, the portal sets a cookie and the xwiki plugin for authentication picks it up. It checks if the user exists, if not creates it. So far so good. I can create a user with code mimicking the user creation code in XWiki.class. But I still have a problem grasping permissions. I'd like to add the user to a special group of portal users, which should be checked and created on the fly if need be. That group should have all the permissions needed. However I don't see a way of doing it. The xwiki.org documentation on the data model did not seem to cover this ground well. Can you give me some pointers? Thanks, J.L.Simon

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[xwiki-devs] Create a document using database
by David Matos 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, I need to create several documents, each one with two tags. After some research I discovered that a document and their respective tags are registered in the following tables: - XWIKIOBJECTS; - XWIKILISTITEMS; - XWIKIPROPERTIES; - XWIKILIST; - XWIKIDOC; - XWIKIRCS; After creating a record in each of these tables the tags are successfully created but the documents appear on the xwiki with errors and when I click them I need to create the doument again, duplicating the record in the database. Am I missing any table do create the document?

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[xwiki-devs] Use a function from another page
by David Matos 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Can I use a function from another page? For example, I have a page where I store some functions and this functions would be called from another pages. Thanks in advance

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[xwiki-devs] [Rendering 2.0][Vote] About whitespace management in list item context
by Lucien PEREIRA 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Working on annotation feature, I need to retrieve xwiki document source code from a selection on XHTML. This requires to have a correspondence between content typed by user and content that appears in html. I noticed in xwiki 2.0 synthax that white spaces typed in a list item context are ignored : *<space><space><space><space><space>foo<space><space><space>bar<space><space><space> renders in XHTML <li>foo<space>  bar   </li> so I could not determine the real offset of selection in xwiki document source. This can be solved by not ignoring spaces so render become : <li>     foo<space>  bar   </li> This policy of rendering already exists in underline or italic context so it's strange to have a different behaviour in list item context. Moreover I think we should not suppose what content is relevant for user or not, so source shouldn't be altered. WDYT ? Lucien

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[xwiki-devs] XE 1.7.1 - Postponing a bit
by Vincent Massol 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi everyone, After discussing with Marius and Anca we'd like to postpone the 1.7.1 release a bit. As a reminder the goal of 1.7.1 is to make the new GWT editor solid enough to be used day to day instead of the current tinymce editor. Thus it needs not to have any major bugs. Since we've discovered a few important bugs recently we need a few more days. The new plan is to release XE 1.7.1 for Friday afternoon, hoping that we don't discover too many new ones. If we do we'll have to postpone by a few more days once more. Note to everyone: we need the max number of people to test the latest snapshot versions of the WYSIWYG editor - here: http://maven.xwiki.org/snapshots/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-je… Thanks everyone -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Problem with WYSIWYG editor
by David Matos 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi! Some pages of my wiki have some code edited with the wiki editor. This code works fine but if someone tries to use de WYSIWYG editor it changes the code and it stops working. I need WYSIWYG editor to work without changing the pages's code, what can I do? thanks in advance

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[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] How to handle a bold starting with a space at the beginning of the line
by Thomas Mortagne 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi devs, We have an issue in the XWiki renderer when the XDOM contains a bold starting with a space at the beginning of a line. For example when we get an html containing <p><strong> some bold text</strong></p> in the office importer. In that case currently we lost the bold when rendering because one or more stars followed by a space is a list in XWiki syntax. I see two solutions: 1) Escape the first space in a verbatim block : **{{{<space>}}}some bold text** 2) Move the first spaces before the bold block: <space>**some bold text** 3) Remove all the first spaces of the bold block: **some bold text** I would prefer 1) because it's the only one which is really the same thing than the input but I think 2) is better for most users because it's less disturbing for something which is not really that important. I listed 3) because it's easier to implement than 2). WDYT ? Here is my +1 for 2) and +0 for 1) and 3) -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] How to create a document with tags with mySQL
by David Matos 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, Hi need to create some documents to my xwiki without using the xwiki editor. So I created some insert's tu create the document. INSERT INTO XWIKIDOC VALUES (2141806153, 'Histórico.O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos', 'O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos', '', '', 'en', 0, '2008-12-16 17:36:50', '2008-12-16 17:36:50', '2008-12-16 17:36:50', 'XWiki.Admin', 'XWiki.Admin', 'XWiki.Admin', 'Histórico', '','1.1', '', '', null, '2', '', '', '', b'0', 'xwiki/1.0'); INSERT INTO xwikiobjects VALUES (2125339131, 0, 'Histórico.O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos', 'XWiki.TagClass'); INSERT INTO xwikiproperties VALUES (2125339131, 'tags', 'com.xpn.xwiki.objects.DBStringListProperty'); INSERT INTO xwikilists VALUES (2125339131, 'tags'); INSERT INTO xwikilistitems VALUES (2125339131, 'tags', 'HS-Histórico', 0); INSERT INTO xwikilistitems VALUES (2125339131, 'tags', '1.0.3 2008/05/20', 1); INSERT INTO xwikircs VALUES (2141806153, 1, 1, '2008-12-16 17:36:50', '', 'XWiki.Admin', b'1', '<xwikidoc><web>Histórico</web><name>O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos</name><language></language><defaultLanguage>en</defaultLanguage><translation>0</translation><parent></parent><creator>XWiki.Admin</creator><author>XWiki.Admin</author><customClass></customClass><contentAuthor>XWiki.Admin</contentAuthor><creationDate>1229428967000</creationDate><date>1229428972000</date><contentUpdateDate>1229428972000</contentUpdateDate><version>1.1</version><title>O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos</title><template></template><defaultTemplate></defaultTemplate><validationScript></validationScript><comment></comment><minorEdit>false</minorEdit><syntaxId>xwiki/1.0</syntaxId><object><class><name>XWiki.TagClass</name><customClass></customClass><customMapping></customMapping><defaultViewSheet></defaultViewSheet><defaultEditSheet></defaultEditSheet><defaultWeb></defaultWeb><nameField></nameField><validationScript></validationScript><tags><cache>0</cache><displayType>input</displayType><multiSelect>1</multiSelect><name>tags</name><number>1</number><prettyName>Tags</prettyName><relationalStorage>1</relationalStorage><separator> </separator><separators> ,|</separators><size>30</size><unmodifiable>0</unmodifiable><values></values><classType>com.xpn.xwiki.objects.classes.StaticListClass</classType></tags></class><name> Histórico.O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos</name><number>0</number><className>XWiki.TagClass</className><property><tags/></property></object><content>O processo que executa os eventos não estava a remover os eventos pendentes que não davam origem a eventos</content></xwikidoc>'); After this X-Wiki "tells me" that the page does not exist and it shows me the editor, so I click "Save and view" and the page works fine but I get duplicated values in my db. What's wrong with this code? Thanks in advance.

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