Re: [xwiki-devs] [WIP] Wiki Explorer Widget

Hi JV, It's a tough choice.. Besides the problem with the data source the SmartGWT's tree has everything that we need like drag&drop on the tree nodes? Also, are there many issues reported for the SmartGWT's TreeGrid? I don't know what's best.. Marius Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'm currently doing some experiments about the wiki explorer and > I've > started to play with smartGWT. > My initial plan was to use the new REST APIs to populate the wiki > explorer tree, the root node would have called /rest/wikis, wiki > nodes > would have called /rest/wikis/WIKI/spaces, and so on. Unfortunately > it > is currently impossible to use multiple sources (REST in our case) > to > populate smartGWT TreeGrid, there are experiments in the field but > this is not yet supported [1]. Note that using a single DataSource > works like a charm but as far as I understand it is not designed to > lazily load bunch of items after bunch of items from the server > (they > are lazily parsed/rendered though), in our case it means that we'd > have to build a huge XML file describing all the resources in the > wikis to feed the wiki explorer; of course this is not an option. > > Here are the options I'm currently evaluating: > > 1) Continue with smart(client/GWT) and extend smartGWT TreeGrid to > be > able to use multiple DataSource (if doable). > 2) Develop a dynamic tree on top of GWT Tree widget and: > a) use the GWT XWikiService to populate the tree (need new methods, > doesn't take advantage of REST operations). > b) use restlet GWT REST client [2] to populate the tree from our > REST services. > c) use sonatype GWT REST client [3] to populate the tree from our > REST services. > > [1]: http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=3181 > [2]: http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_1.1/13-restlet/144-restlet.html > [3]: http://svn.sonatype.org/nexus/trunk/sandbox/nexus-gwt-ui/sonatype-gwt-rest/ > > Thanks,