Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] URL format for temporary resources

Hi, My impression was that it was too complicated, from a caller's POV, to manage the module, the document and then a module-based hierarchy when all you want is a temporary resource URL (for which you should not care about all of these things) and which you could easily resolve with some script service. The main thing is that it must resolve in the browser, for a while at least. Uniqueness would also be easily guaranteed IMO, since it would be a single (Java) service that would be in charge of this and that could take care of synchronization or DB access issues. Also, you`ve mentioned creating a file for the temporary resource. I was under the impression that this API would only take care of assigning and making accessible a temporary resource (URL) and it would be the caller's job to actually retrieve its content (since the resource could be stored in a file, in a wiki page, on some separate service maybe, etc.). Perhaps temporary files could be a default provided helper implementation (since it`s pretty common). Anyway, that was just my (non-binding) view on this which, for me, just feels simpler to use. Since you have the actual problem to fix, you probably know better the actual needs from this API than I got to understand from my quick reading. I personally hope we don`t get to proliferate this yet another document reference (escaping) syntax since we already have too many (dots vs slashes, w/o WebHome, etc. and now syntax vs URL) and our users might be already confused enough. Thanks, Eduard On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: