Re: [xwiki-users] velocity tools access

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:05:52 +0100, Vincent Massol wrote Nice. I looked in xwiki-velocity and was not able to figure: what is it. Now understood that it is just not finished ;) Functionality you tell about is exactly a ToolManager in VelocityTools 2.0: it read class name from configuration, get through reflection annotation 'DefaultKey', than add tool to context (in application scope). I guess, that you have implementation plan like next: Step 1. 1.1. add to VelocityManager method 'createContext' (or initialize existing context), which will create 1.2. call VelocityManager.createContext from VelocityRendere.prepareContext() (it's means that classes must be moved to xwiki-core package ?) 1.3. add configure method to VelocityManager, which will read name of classes and keys from some property or configuration (and may be, if key is not configurated -- use some analog of DefaultKey annotation, which we than change to org.apache.velocity.tools.config.DefualtKey when VelocityTools-2.0 will be released) release this as snapshot. Step 2. 4. for plugins: may be velocity-aware plugins want to add some objects or macroses to default velocity context, than add velocity context initialization callback to plugin interface. release this as snapshot. And what a time frame ? Can I help in something ? (for example by writing 1.1,1.2,1.3 and submitting a patch) -- Ruslan Shevchenko GradSoft. http://www.gradsoft.ua