Hi devs,
With the initial support of Ludo, Vincent and Anca, the contributions from Clément and the
suggestions from Alex #thanks, the PageRelations application has been released [1]. It
makes it easy to create relations between pages (by using pages somehow as tags, except
that in this way, "tags" themselves can be "tagged"), and to expose
clusters / facets of relations that are second-level relations highly connected to
first-level relations. There is one remaining issue before releasing a completely
functional version of this application, that relates to the refactoring of pages. Simple
refactoring is supported via a listener listening to DocumentCreatedEvent. In the general
case, by checking if the JobStartedEvent has type "refactoring/rename", the
listener updates the inverse relations of a renamed page, by looking into the
"entityReferences" property of the request associated with the current job [2].
However this kind of trick does seem not work when the renamed page has children that have
relations, and it seems that a real DocumentRenamedEvent with an explicit destination /
source would be needed. I understand though that a RenameJob exists, but I could not find
any DocumentRenamedEvent. Is this something that you think would be needed in this case,
or that is already planned on the roadmap? What do you think?
[1]
https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Page Relations Application/
[2]
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-page-relations/blob/master/app…
Thanks for your help and regards,
Stéphane
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Stéphane Laurière
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