Re: [xwiki-users] Registering components - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

27 Nov 2014

Many thanks, I'll give that a go.
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From: Thomas Mortagne [thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com]
Sent: 27 November 2014 23:14
To: Bryn Jeffries
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Registering components

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…
is a good up to date (we changed several time the mocking system to
use in XWiki by default, it's Mockito currently) example of how to
manipuated a mock of DocumentAccessBridge in a component oriented unit
test.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Bryn Jeffries
&lt;bryn.jeffries(a)sydney.edu.au&gt; wrote:
...
  Useful to know, thanks. Incidentally, are there any
useful mocks, etc, for
 unit testing xwiki component code ( to avoid frequently restarting tomcat)?
 Like a mock execution context, for instance?

 Thanks,

 Bryn

 ----- Reply message -----
 From: "Thomas Mortagne" &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt;
 To: "XWiki Users" &lt;users(a)xwiki.org&gt;
 Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Registering components
 Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2014 18:38

 On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Thomas Mortagne
 &lt;thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote:
  What you have in XE_WAR_HOME/WEB-INF/lib is
loaded by Tomcat at
 startup, there is not much XWiki can do about it.

 But you can install your jar as an extension using Extension Manager
 as long as it's on some supported repository (which mean a Maven
 repository or XWiki repository, see

 http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Repository+Application
 for this last one) and you indicate your repository in
 xwiki.properties. 
 Note that Extension Manager is not the best fit right now to test
 snapshot jars since it does not have the required special handling of
 SNAPSHOT needed to update to a new version of the same SNAPSHOT
 version.

 On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Bryn Jeffries
 &lt;bryn.jeffries(a)sydney.edu.au&gt; wrote:
  Having been put off writing Java components a
number of times I've
 decided to really tackle the problem head on. I would greatly appreciate any
 help in this.

 I've been following the advice in
 http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents and I
 have compiled a Jar identical to the Hello World example except that the
 class and method names differ, hopefully consistently. I've placed the jar
 in XE_WAR_HOME/WEB-INF/lib and written a page, which consists only of
 {{velocity}}
 $services.mycomponent.greet()
 {{/velocity}}

 The output when viewed is simple "$services.alertdb.greet()", so nothing
 seems to have happened. However, if I restart Tomcat (and then wait a minute
 or so for XWiki to restart) the output is "Hello", as desired.

 So is a restart of Tomcat always required? This wasn't mentioned in the
 guide. And since extensions can be added via the extension manager without a
 restart, is there a sneaky trick to doing the same with my own components.

 Also, is a restart necessary when I update the Jar, either with fixed
 methods or modified interface?
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