Backport of Import Export Script
Hi All. This is probably most appropriate to Jeremi, but I would appreciate anyones thoughts on the subject. XWiki is a phenomenal piece of software that I am thinking of new uses every day. I am currently running 0.9.840 on one of my servers and am a little bit paranoid about upgrading until later in the year, as our application is growing at a furious rate and I would like it to stabilise a little before we go through an upgrade. However, some of the new features are very tempting (I am using the standalone for testing). Ideally I would like to use your XWiki/ImportExport script to create user configurable exports on the existing data and was wondering how involved the underlying adjustments would be to the code to make it work with the stable version. The script looks for $export. Is this a java class that is put into a xwiki context in the later release? If so, is it self sufficient enough to compile and add to an existing installation, or is it too dependent on other code in the later version? With custom java classes, is there a straight forward description somewhere on putting them in an XWiki context so they can be used by Velocity? In a mildly related point: I have deployed DWR (https:// dwr.dev.java.net/) side by xwiki in another testing installation for some AJAX experimentation and it seems to be co-habiting without too much trouble. Apologies for the basic questions, but I am currently on a steep learning curve with this and appreciate any help offerred. Have a great day. Mark.
On 3/23/06, Mark Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All.
This is probably most appropriate to Jeremi, but I would appreciate anyones thoughts on the subject.
XWiki is a phenomenal piece of software that I am thinking of new uses every day.
I am currently running 0.9.840 on one of my servers and am a little bit paranoid about upgrading until later in the year, as our application is growing at a furious rate and I would like it to stabilise a little before we go through an upgrade. However, some of the new features are very tempting (I am using the standalone for testing). Yes, maybe wait some weeks(i don't know exactly how many), we are fixing some bugs.
Ideally I would like to use your XWiki/ImportExport script to create user configurable exports on the existing data and was wondering how involved the underlying adjustments would be to the code to make it work with the stable version.
The script looks for $export. Is this a java class that is put into a xwiki context in the later release?
it's not on the context, it's on the plugins. you call xwiki plugins like this : $xwiki.pluginName
If so, is it self sufficient enough to compile and add to an existing installation, or is it too dependent on other code in the later version?
Sorry, we fix some bugs after the 0.9.840, for exemple, the export of attachments.
With custom java classes, is there a straight forward description somewhere on putting them in an XWiki context so they can be used by Velocity? you can create a plugin. For this take a look to the package plugin on the xwiki code. there is a lot of example (look the feed plugin).
In a mildly related point: I have deployed DWR (https:// dwr.dev.java.net/) side by xwiki in another testing installation for some AJAX experimentation and it seems to be co-habiting without too much trouble.
ok, when you have something, show me, i'm very interesting.
Apologies for the basic questions, but I am currently on a steep learning curve with this and appreciate any help offerred.
your welcome. Jérémi -- Blog: http://www.jeremi.info LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1437724 Project Manager XWiki: http://www.xwiki.org skype: jeremi23 -- msn et gtalk : [email protected]
participants (2)
-
jeremi joslin -
Mark Robinson