Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki/XEclipse template/form system.

Hi Karel, On 06/02/2011 07:54 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm back to this task. I've searched JIRA for related RFE/BUG but > have > not found anything so I created my own: > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XECLIPSE-152 > > My basic idea about UI is that XEclipse New Page wizard will be > enhanced > to provide a field "Template" where user will be able to select > appropriate template provider (as they are set in Administration> > Content> Templates). In order to get the list of templates in XEclipse, you would need a service that does internally a HQL like this: #set($availableProviders = $xwiki.searchDocuments(", BaseObject obj where doc.fullName=obj.name and obj.className='XWiki.TemplateProviderClass' and doc.fullName!='XWiki.TemplateProviderTemplate'")) (taken from XWiki.AdminTemplatesSheet, the page that displays the content in Administration> Content> Templates) The service can be either a REST extension (java component) or a wiki page called with ?xpage=plain (to return the result in some custom xml or just csv). > If he/she sets some, then while clicking on Next > button (to be added) it'll render the page of the template provider > form > to the wizard window, the user will be able to fill it and then hit > Finish button to actually save the page. Both to avoid reimplementing the template mechanism and the rendering of the template form, one rather simple solution would be to display in an SWT Browser control the result of a page like http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/inline/Main/MyNewPage?parent=Main.AParentPa… (the type of link generated by the create page dialog in XWiki). Basically you show the XWiki page inside your wizard. The problem with this approach is that you end up with unnecessary header, panels and footer when you`re only interested in the page content. Besides that, you also have the save, save&continue and cancel buttons that are kind of conflicting with your wizard's buttons and flow. Not sure about this, but one solution may be to extract from the big HTML, only the document content, excluding the bottom buttons. You`d better inspect (with firebug) the structure of the page to see what you need and what you don`t. A second partial solution would be to append ?xpage=plain to the above link and you will end up only with the rendered document content in inline mode (so you can have inputs and such). The only disadvantage I see here is that, if your template uses non-inline javascript (trough a JavaScriptExtension for example or the js already available in XWiki), it will not be available in the rendered version. Whichever you choose from the two solutions, you can then implement the Finish button of the wizard to launch a HTTP request and simulate the Save button from XWiki's page (passing all the needed parameters, including the parameters in the page the user just filled in). You can additionally stylize the displayed HTML so that it better integrates with the Eclipse wizard. > Now the question is how to achieve it? Any idea where to start > hacking > or where to look for more information is highly appreciated here. This is the only thing I can think of right now. Hope it helps. Thanks, Eduard > Thanks, > Karel > > On 04/26/11 05:38 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently reading about XWiki and XEclipse and would like to >> ask if >> there is any consensus about XWiki pages templates which might >> also be >> usable from XEclipse probably after some code hacking on its >> plugins. >> >> I'm currently working on some project for my client (source code >> will be >> contributed/available later in the project stage) where there is a >> need >> to use XEclipse and enhance it to support some predefined >> forms/templates for web pages creation. So far I've found just >> XWiki FAQ >> tutorial on >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial which >> tries to deals with some kind of templates. However this looks quite >> general at least so far to me and so I would like to ask the >> question >> above about consensus where and how to go with templates in >> xwiki/xeclipse. >> >> My current idea is to stick with the XWiki server as a provider of >> templates to preserve ability to use templates from both browser and >> xeclipse and to enhance xeclipse new page creation wizard to >> provide a >> list of available templates on the server side... >> >> Thanks for any idea where to start or where to look for more >> information >> with regarding to this project task. >> >> Karel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs