[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New wikimacro script binding

Hi everyone, this is a proposal to add a new wikimacro script binding for the next release, that I also plan to backport on 11.3.x and 10.11.x branches. We had recently a bug report (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16520) about the WikiMacro parameter: types were introduce in 10.10 (with https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13282) but we in fact never converted them, making their type pretty useless. We provided a first fix to it actually broke at least one existing macro, AttachmentSelector which was still expecting String parameter values instead of the types used in some of those parameters. So even if the parameters were supposed to be typed since XWiki 10.10, in practice they never have been. We might as well consider returning a typed values as a regression since it might break some of the existing macros. That's why I propose to implement right now a new wikimacro binding, to be able to get both typed parameter values and string parameter values. The old binding would then still be available by using $xcontext.macro but we would deprecate its usage. I propose that all the existing $xcontext.macro information to be available by using $macro, and to be able to use: * $macro.parameters.foo to get a typed parameter value * $macro.parametersAsString.foo to get the string value parameter Could you tell me if you agree with all those changes? Thanks, Simon -- Simon Urli Software Engineer at XWiki SAS simon.urli(a)xwiki.com More about us at http://www.xwiki.com