8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
1:34 p.m.
Hi Peter,
On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Peter Waver <pfwaver(a)web.de> wrote:
Hello
I’m very new to xwiki – found it yesterday ;) cause I’m search for a tool to
display the content of our stock databases.
This means - i only need a (read-only) front end to some databases here.
I found the possibility, to add a custom app in xwiki. But - so far i see -
the structure is added to the xwiki default DB.
Now here is my question. Is it possible to use xwiki as a front-end or set
up different data sources to connect to different databases?
And how can i put values from the DB into a xwiki form?
See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Execute+SQL for examples of how
to run SQL code.
Now, if what you want is to load XObject (XWiki Objects) data an external data source then
this is not built in. Basically you'll need to provide some script to query your DB
with SQL (for ex) and then create/populate the XObjects with the loaded data.
The alternative is to create some loader that will get the data from an external source
and put it in the XWiki database. You'll then need to call this loader regularly to
perform the sync. It really depends if you need a bidirectional sync or not. If so then
the first solution is the best.
What would be great in the future would be the ability to declare somehow that such object
is loaded in a custom way and allowing providing some scripts to load it as it's done
for the Database List property type.
Thanks
-Vincent
The devel Docs on the wiki side seams to covers an
older xwiki version.
I'm appreciated for any hint ...
Thanks a lot
Peter
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