Thanks, Vincent! On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 1:28 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

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On 15 Feb 2017, at 09:02, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi! After many years surviving with Velocity scripts, it is time to enjoy Groovy's magic! :-)

Great! :)

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Both XWiki sites and the web, in general, are crowded with sites/pages with plenty of Groovy tutorials and manuals, but it would be great to have some simple examples to helping understand the similarities and differences between Velocity and Groovy.

Please, is there any XWiki resource explaining, for instance, how to achieve the same results shown in these sections by using Groovy?

There’s this doc that you may or may not have seen already: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting

Please check in this doc the limitations of using groovy (programming rights).

It’s easy to convert a velocity script in groovy in general since the bindings are the same and all the API calls are actually calls on java objects and thus are the same from all scripting languages.

Let us know if you have specific questions

There is one line here... http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide ... that is making me nuts! This one... SomeSpace.SomeClass[0] : field1 = "$rawValue" I've been not able to make it work, whereas other syntaxes do. Here some "life" Groovy examples.... http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/Groovy/ Please, how that line does work? Thank you very much! Ricardo

Thanks -Vincent

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http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAccessobjectsina...

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http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAccessobjectsfro...

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Thanks for your help!

Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es

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Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es

Hi Vincent! Thanks for your answer! On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:28 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Ricardo,

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On 26 Feb 2017, at 13:49, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, Vincent!

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 1:28 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi Ricardo,

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On 15 Feb 2017, at 09:02, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi! After many years surviving with Velocity scripts, it is time to enjoy Groovy's magic! :-)

Great! :)

...

Both XWiki sites and the web, in general, are crowded with sites/pages with plenty of Groovy tutorials and manuals, but it would be great to have some simple examples to helping understand the similarities and differences between Velocity and Groovy.

Please, is there any XWiki resource explaining, for instance, how to achieve the same results shown in these sections by using Groovy?

There’s this doc that you may or may not have seen already: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting

Please check in this doc the limitations of using groovy (programming rights).

It’s easy to convert a velocity script in groovy in general since the bindings are the same and all the API calls are actually calls on java objects and thus are the same from all scripting languages.

Let us know if you have specific questions

There is one line here...

http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide

... that is making me nuts! This one...

SomeSpace.SomeClass[0] : field1 = "$rawValue"

I've been not able to make it work, whereas other syntaxes do. Here some "life" Groovy examples....

http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/Groovy/

These 2 lines seem wrong:

objsAuthors = doc.getObjects('XWiki.XWikiComments').author objsAuthor = doc.getObjects('XWiki.XWikiComments')[2].author

I can understand your explanation but, if these lines are wrong, why these are working? http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/Groovy/ I'm not sure where I'm lost... :-( Thanks!

doc.getObjects() will return a List of objects (i.e. several), and there’s no getAuthor() or get(‘author’) API on a Vector or List…

If you want to iterate you need to:

doc.getObjects('XWiki.XWikiComments’).each() { def author = it.get(‘author’) println “* ${author}" }

I think the error is that in Velocity the call:

$doc.getObjects('XWiki.XWikiComments')[2].author is a shortcut and the real call is:

$doc.getObjects('XWiki.XWikiComments')[2].get(‘author’)

See http://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.7/user-guide.html#property-lookup-rules

This doesn’t exist in Groovy so you need to write get(‘author’).

Thanks -Vincent

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Please, how that line does work?

Thank you very much!

Ricardo

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Thanks -Vincent

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http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAccessobjectsina...

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http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAccessobjectsfro...

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Thanks for your help!

Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es

-- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es

-- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es