[xwiki-devs] [WIP] Wiki Explorer Widget

Hi devs, I'm currently doing some experiments about the wiki explorer and I've started to play with smartGWT. My initial plan was to use the new REST APIs to populate the wiki explorer tree, the root node would have called /rest/wikis, wiki nodes would have called /rest/wikis/WIKI/spaces, and so on. Unfortunately it is currently impossible to use multiple sources (REST in our case) to populate smartGWT TreeGrid, there are experiments in the field but this is not yet supported [1]. Note that using a single DataSource works like a charm but as far as I understand it is not designed to lazily load bunch of items after bunch of items from the server (they are lazily parsed/rendered though), in our case it means that we'd have to build a huge XML file describing all the resources in the wikis to feed the wiki explorer; of course this is not an option. Here are the options I'm currently evaluating: 1) Continue with smart(client/GWT) and extend smartGWT TreeGrid to be able to use multiple DataSource (if doable). 2) Develop a dynamic tree on top of GWT Tree widget and: a) use the GWT XWikiService to populate the tree (need new methods, doesn't take advantage of REST operations). b) use restlet GWT REST client [2] to populate the tree from our REST services. c) use sonatype GWT REST client [3] to populate the tree from our REST services. [1]: http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=3181 [2]: http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_1.1/13-restlet/144-restlet.html [3]: http://svn.sonatype.org/nexus/trunk/sandbox/nexus-gwt-ui/sonatype-gwt-rest/ Thanks, JV.