________________________________ Von: Scott Serr <serrs(a)theserrs.net> An: users(a)xwiki.org Gesendet: 15:51 Mittwoch, 28.September 2011 Betreff: [xwiki-users] data model and velocity I have a data model that follow this page structure: Detectors   -> Detector1     -> Detector1History1     -> Detector1History2   -> Detector2 (Implemented with my DetectorClass and DetectorHistoryClass) The Detectors is like a dashboard for Detectors and their history.  It's mostly working.  My issue is that my Velocity code on that top dashboard page is looking pretty ugly.  It has nested loops and I don't know how to do any encapsulation.  If I could do things like detector1.getNewestHistory() that would be very helpful.  But my Detector Object Class is limited to what I can define in XWiki.  To my knowledge, XWiki's "user defined" classes aren't able to encapsulate code.  Am I wrong? It seems like defining my Velocity macros would help, but my understanding is a macro can't return anything, just evaluates to output. If I'm wrong-headed, please correct me. Thanks, Scott _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users