[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Add new methods for manipulating properties to DocumentAccessBridge

Hi devs, It seems that currently there is no good way to manipulate XWiki objects and properties in documents without depending on old core. DocumentAccessBridge defines some methods for changing properties, but they are very limited, in particular, there is no way to: * add a new property (except the first one) * set a property of n-th object (getting it is possible) * remove an object * get the number of objects Therefore I propose to add the following methods to DocumentAccessBridge: // returns index of the new object int addObject(ObjectReference obj) throws Exception; // returns false if there was no object, throws on access error boolean removeObject(ObjectReference obj, int index) throws Exception; // number of objects of the given class int getObjectCount(ObjectReference obj); // returns index of the object that was modified, adds a new object if // index is out of range int setProperty(ObjectReference obj, int idx, String prop, Object val) throws Exception; // just to have all needed methods taking object reference Object getProperty(ObjectReference obj, int index, String propertyName); I've chosen ObjectReference because it contains (almost) all needed information, including class name and document reference. It would be better to have the object index stored in the reference too, like in org.xwiki.annotation.reference.IndexedObjectReference, but this class is annotation-specific. I need those methods to store certificates in user profile, see https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-signedscripts WDYT? Thanks, Alex