August 2008 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] xwiki API content assistance complited
by malaka ekanayake 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Hi devs, I have complied the content assistance for xwiki API.Now the proposals are readout from a seperate resource file.There are seperate file for each context type ( i.e seperate files for $xwiki ,$doc .. ) .At the moment the API information is stored in the files in the following format xwiki.copyDocument(java.lang.String docname, java.lang.String sourceWiki,java.lang.String targetWiki, java.lang.String wikilanguage) is transtatet to a single line entry in the xwiki.txt resourse file as bellow copyDocument String docname String sourceWiki String targetWiki String wikilanguage Now i'm looking at velocity variable proposal and error notification.In order to provide content assistance and error marking, there is a requirement to parse and build the an object model of document which contains both XWiki and Velocity. AFAIK, XDOM only supports XWiki. Is there an object model which can r present these two languages. For velocity code, there is a possibility to use the parser shipped with Apache Velocity. But then we need to develop our own object model. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Malaka

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[xwiki-devs] new rendering syntax concerning Groovy
by Pascal Voitot 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hello, Do you foresee a special syntax for groovy scripts as you already have for velocity using {{velocity}} with some more features? My idea is to be able to code cleanly using groovy and to put some "generic" part of scripts in separated documents and to be able to import them in other docs containing other parts of scripts. It would be really nice to be able to type some part of scripts or to define some groovy classes in a page and tell "this is groovy code which is not "WIKI-renderable" as is". Then we could simply import/include this script in another page (just paste the code without any rendering) using something like #include("MySpace.MyGroovyDoc"). xwiki.parseGroovyXXX is useful sometimes but not when you only want to include some part of scripts. Existing #includeXXX macros always render the content and here I only want to paste a script from somewhere else (xwiki.getDocument("").getContent() in fact) Moreover the idea would be also to allow using both "xwiki.parseGroovy" and the #include macro for the same groovy "document". For the time being, one need to use the trick /* groovygroovy #* */ /* *# */ and then you are condemned to use xwiki.parseGroovyXXX because no other function can interprete this tricky syntax. best regards Pascal

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[xwiki-devs] Fwd: [ANN] Apache FOP 0.95 Released
by Vincent Massol 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

We should try it. Who's game to upgrade our FOP version and verify our PDF/RTF exports still work? Thanks -Vincent Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeremias Maerki <jeremias(a)apache.org> > Date: August 6, 2008 8:05:47 AM CEDT > To: fop-dev(a)xmlgraphics.apache.org, fop- > users(a)xmlgraphics.apache.org, general(a)xmlgraphics.apache.org, general(a)xml.apache.org > , announce(a)apache.org, XSL-FO(a)yahoogroups.com, www-xsl-fo(a)w3.org > Subject: [ANN] Apache FOP 0.95 Released > > Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter > driven by > XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It > is a > Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the > resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently > supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is > Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0. > > It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final > Apache > FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to > 0.95beta. > The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94) > are: > - many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps > and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on > columns and header/footer/body; > - better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework > provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency; > - improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font > auto-detection/-registration; > - performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property > handling in the FO tree. > - elimination of a potential multi-threading problem. > - some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support, > fo:page-number-citation) > > Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one > type of > binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs. > > Other important release notes are available at > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html > > For a more complete list of changes, please visit > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html > > For download information, see the following page: > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/ > > > On behalf of the Apache XML Graphics team, > Jeremias Maerki

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[xwiki-devs] souce-code setup with eclipse !
by Amit Chawla 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi, I am student with RMIT University and I am working on a project on open-source wiki application. I have a basic idea of velocity, struts, eclipse, maven, java, xml, etc. as a part of the courses that I am doing in university. Thats is why I looked at the xwiki workspace application. To build my project, I went thru various helps available at xwiki site like: - http://dev.xwiki.org - http://platform.xwiki.org I want to study the source code so that I can understand it better. So, I want to see the source code in eclipse. I went thru the help on above site but I am not sure how to deploy the code in eclipse. I wanted this to do this to make changes in the code and run it to see how it affects the existing environment. In my earlier projects, I had the distribution of files (.war) which included both source and classes, but xwiki_workspaces.war has only class distribution. So, i am unable to make changes and see its affects. Any help would be appreciated. ac

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[xwiki-devs] Access page object attribute and unrendered page content through SOAP interface
by Hoani Cross 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi, Is there any way to access to page object attributes and/or unrendered page content ? Thanks in advance. -- Hoani CROSS Globotraders Tahiti Founder [http://globotraders-tahiti.com]

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[xwiki-devs] Session Variables
by MikSan 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

How can I set and get a new session variable in xwiki. Something like: context.getRequest().getHttpServletRequest().getSession().setAttribute("The_name",value); context.getRequest().getHttpServletRequest().getSession().getAttribute("The_name"); Thanks for the help -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Session-Variables-tp674006p674006.html Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] XWiki Velocity Documentation
by Ludovic Dubost 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, I've published in svn a tool based on velocidoc (http://sourceforge.net/projects/velocidoc/) to allow to generate javadoc style documentation for velocity macros. You'll find links to it and an example of generating for the XWiki Platform Web templates directory on the wiki: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/Documenting+XWiki+Velocity+Macros From now on we should start documeting velocity macros with the following syntax: #** * Description of the macro * @param paramname desc * @param paramname desc * @author author *# A later improvement will allow parsing XWiki xml files and extract documentation of the pages in the same format. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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[xwiki-devs] [proposal] Refactor pages footer (comments, attachments, etc)
by Jean-Vincent Drean 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi XWikiers, I've recently worked on a refactoring of the page footer and I'd like to get some feedback about it. Features: * New "information" section displaying parent, backlinks, included pages, etc * New "history" section (as described in the original albatross spec) * Tags edition with suggest (information) * Lazy loading of sections via AJAX * Url hash (#comments) taken into account, for example autoload/scroll after having upladed an attachments. * Unobstrusive JavaScript (links are working with JS turned off) Since a demo is worth a thousand words, you can try it here : http://jv.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ WDYT ? Thanks, JV.

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[xwiki-devs] question about integration/roadmap of the new modular architecture/rendering engine etc...
by Pascal Voitot 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello, I have been working for some time compiling my own snapshot XWikiEnterprise 1.5 (I was following the trunk in fact) but I have stopped following the trunk in order to test some things... Apparently now the version is 1.6... Before looking directly in the code with my own eyes, I prefer asking a few questions about all the new features (modular architecture, new rendering, new macros etc...): Are they integrated in the last available tags? (the modular architecture has appeared long time ago but it's not the default archi yet) Does it break any compatibility? Do you still use the old implementations as the default one? When do you intend to replace the old archi with the new one? Do you have an idea of the roadmap for this? Is version 2.0 the version when the old implementations will disappear? I need to have such information in order to know if I go on upgrading using the trunk because it brings some bug corrections without breaking any existing things? or do I use a tag version to have a stable and fixed platform? I don't fear using new versions and examining bugs and even correcting them as long as they don't destroy my database? Best regards Pascal

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[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] [WebDAV] Interoperability
by Ludovic Dubost 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi Asiri, I've worked a little on WebDAV interoperability and made quite some progress. We now have on Mac: - WebDAV working for browsing and downloading files - WebDAV working for drag and dropping files - WebDAV working with vi in view, edit and save (it says on save that the file was changed while editing although it's not true) - WebDAV working with a patched version of OpenOffice (with a fix for locking) or with official NeoOffice in view edit and save - WebDAV working with TextEdit in view, edit but NOT save Mac OSX generates phony attachments to store temporart files. TextEdit fails because it tries to create a file then MOVE it (it might be because of the same locking issue as OpenOffice). And on Windows XP: With Novell NetDrive (mapping webdav to a driver letter): - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping - WebDAV working with notepad and OpenOffice in view, edit, save With Microsoft Web Folders (2 versions on SP2 tested including the latest patch from Microsoft, SP3 would need to be tested) - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping - WebDAV allowing to double click or open from notepad or OpenOffice but by copying to a temp read only file. You then can SAVE AS to the WebDAV folder. It might be possible that MS Office allows to handle this differently. With Microsoft WebDAV redirector (same one available on Vista) - Nothing works at all. I've tried almost all I could to try to use it to map a network drive on the webdav folder.. The constraints are pretty hard on the web dav server and even though I was not able to have it fully working. I find it a dead end. On Windows Vista: - Nothing works at all It seems possible to install a Web Folders package on Vista and have the behavior of XP. In any case, the Microsoft solution is sub-optimal on Windows. Novell NetDrive (free download findable on the web) or WebDrive (it's commercial counterpart) seem to be much more efficient. Maybe MSOffice works correctly with WebFolders but this needs to be tested. On Mac the behavior is pretty nice with the patched version of OpenOffice (patch is published there: http://tools.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81536 let's hope they put it in the standard distrib). Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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