Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Creation of xwiki-platform-uiextension module

Hi devs, I'm implementing the LinkChecker UI and I want to be able to add a Tab in AllDocs. Right now I've coded it with a hardcoded #if but I really hate this. So here's my proposal: * Create the following modules: xwiki-platform-uiextension/    |_ xwiki-platform-uiextension-ui/    |_ xwiki-platform-uiextension-api/ where: * xwiki-platform-uiextension-ui/: contains XWiki.UIExtensionClass page * xwiki-platform-uiextension-api/: contains a ScriptService to get UIExtension data + contains an EventListener that refreshes the UI Extension Cache when an UIExtensionClass object is modified (this is for performance reasons) To start with I'm proposing to have the following fields for UIExtensionClass: * type: String, represents the type of the extension (for example for the AllDocs needs, I'll use a "IndexTab" type (or "AllDocsTab" type)

* id: String, the technical name of the extension, which can be used for example as suffix for HTML class or ids. * name: String, the name of the extension, which can be used for displaying. For example for the AllDocs needs, it would be used as the name of the Tab * content: Textarea: the content of the extension.  For example for the AllDocs needs, it would be used as the content to display when clicking on a tab I'd like to implement this ASAP and thus stop hardcoding UI Extensions from now on. Here's my +1

Thanks -Vincent PS: If you find a better than "uiextension" I'm all ears. A name without "extension" would be great to not confuse it with our Extensions (and with xwiki-platform-extension). _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs