[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Where does livetable belong?

Hi devs, While looking into the delete space UI issue [1], we first thought about directly using the livetable macro to list the documents to be deleted from the space. Now the problem, as state by Vincent: Can/should we use the livetable inside templates? Is the livetable part of xwiki-platform-web or is a removable extension (xwiki-platform-livetable)? Currently, xwiki-platform-livetable only contains the 2 pages that generate the JSON for the livetable, but the html markup is generated by the #livetable macro (macros.vm) and the livetable.css and livetable.js files are all in xwiki-platform-web. The only case of it being used in templates right now is in rightsUI.vm [2] where the macro is not directly called, but the html markup is created by hand and the javascript and css is included. IMO, we should decide on a single approach for the livetable and use it all the way. What we do currently can be confusing even for us. I currently see two directions: 1) Move the content of xwiki-platform-livetable in a xwiki-platform-web as templates so that the livetable is a core feature and that it also works in the UI when the database is empty. 2) Move the livetable macro (as wiki macro?), js (as JSX) and css (as SSX) from xwiki-platform-web to xwiki-platform-livetable and see the livetable as just another extension/feature that is only present when installed. The rightsUI would need a change as well, since it can no longer rely on the livetable and probbaly we would also need to find a way to allow extenions to contribute filesystem resources. I thought it would be a good idea to open a discussion on this topic since it's currently, AFAIK, a grey area. WDYT? Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8320 [2] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…