March 2010 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] Google Gadgets Integration - Status & Request for Feedback
by Anamaria Stoica 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi devs, I wanted to show you what work has been done until now on the Google Gadgets Integration, talk a bit about the next steps and ask for feedback. I put up the gadgets work on the incubator, so you can take a quick look. Mostly I'm interested in the minimum subset of features and changes that I need to make in order to have something worth integrating in a future release. Macro Directory: (for all Wiki Macros and Java Macros) http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/ Macro Description Page: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/Macro?id=wc99 Dashboard Macro Test: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/MacrosTest/DashboardTest The dashboard example contains 3 macros imported from Panels, like Last Members, My Recent Modifications and Blog Categories, and 1 macro imported from a Google Gadget: World Clocks. (I named it w99) Import Google Gadget as Macro Form: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/GoogleGadgetsImport WYSIWYG Integration: - easily edit all Google Gadget Macros parameters/user preferences (if inserted alone on the page) - if a macro is inside the Dashboard macro, you don't have access to editing its parameters. Ideally, in the future this kind of interaction would be nice to have: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/GadgetsIntegrationPropo… (Test both of the above here: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/MacrosTest/DashboardTest) I'm planning to work next on: - AJAX requests to update dashboard state after each drag&drop action (modify the content of the dashboard to reflect the new order of the gadgets - Add Thumbnail and Screenshots support for Macros - Nice UI for Dashboard and Macros Directory (already asked Caty for help here) More work after that: - Add Macros(Gadgets) to a Dashboard (either from the Directory and/or through WYSIWYG editor) - Convert all Panels to Wiki Macros (Question here: What happens with the panel headers? Do I transform them into headings like in the Last Members, My Recent Modifications, Blog Categories examples? If so, how would they be placed on the side, in the empty shell containers to keep looking like they do now? ( http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/GadgetsIntegrationPropo… or http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/GadgetsIntegrationPropo… ?) - Create types for Wiki Macro parameters: boolean, enum, (int), string (very inconvenient right now for enum types for gadgets with a lot of options -- e.g. see time zone parameters (up_tz1) for World Clock macro --> problem would be nicely solved with a Select) - Allow custom number of columns for Dashboard Questions: - Should dashboard cells have titles? If so, what happens to the titles of Panel origin Macros? (see discussion a little more above) - Is the current syntax of dashboards OK? {{dashboard}} 1 {{members/}} 1 {{myrecentmodifications/}} 2 {{blogcategories/}} 3 {{wc99 title='Another Clock Gadget' w='280' h='280' up_tz1name='Bucharest' up_tz2name='Paris' up_tz1='RO' up_tz2='FR'/}} {{/dashboard}} , where each line represents a cell, the first number being the column number, one blank space and the the content of the cell. For a given column, the order of appearance is important, being treated as a stack (one cell above another). * Keep in mind: - the lines need to be easily update by many AJAX requests issued at each Drag&Drop on the dashboard (both their order, and also the column numbers) - content available in wiki editor - currently does not allow multiple lines for one cell (would a lot more complicated for the AJAX updates) - currently has no title - do we need a title?? SVN: - https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-gadgets/ (Java Components) - https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/gadgets/ (XAR) Thanks for the feedback, Anamaria

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-users] XWiki Logo Challenge
by Giuseppe Vallarelli 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I appreciate: - Proposal 7 by Sorana Secu, it communicates the idea of collaboration(see X) - I don't like the choice of colours. - Proposal 15 by Vishal Battula, it communicates a feeling of joy and it's easy to remember. - I like the font and colour choices made by Ecaterina(proposal 1-2). I think that the idea of collaboration is suggested by the word Wiki, then my vote goes to Proposal 15 but I think we can adopt the font and colours picked by Ecaterina, if it's possible to make a merge :D. Giuseppe.

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki Office 1.1 RC1 Released
by Florin Ciubotaru 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Office 1.1 RC1 Go grab it athttp://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download#HXWiki20Office All active XOffice 1.1 instances will be automatically updated to the current RC1 version. Main changes from version 1.1 M2: * document compare and conflict resolution * more consistent document versioning * more bug fixes For more information about this release see the release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXOffice11RC1 For more information about XOffice visit: http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome Thanks -The XWiki dev team

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki.org horizontal navigation + home page
by Giuseppe Vallarelli 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi all :), I'm following this discussion about XWiki homepage redesign. I have to say that I like much the second proposal made by Ecaterina here.<http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgProposal2>I want to give just an idea for the "fat" footer, I don't know if this has been discussed but I think (imho) that fat footer should be displayed when a user want more information about (community, project, or something else) I think an example explains better, look at kde.org if you want more information about some topic in the tab bar, you go with cursor there and it shows more details; as vincent said it seems like a duplication of information in the upper part, and footer. I found this resoruce about web design that could be useful: webStyleGuide<http://www.webstyleguide.com/wsg3/index.html> . Giuseppe.

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki.org horizontal navigation + home page
by Vincent Massol 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi there, I'd like to start a overhaul of the xwiki.org home page + a first level navigation overhaul. Today: * Home page = list the different products * First level nav = the ecosystem panel Problems: * We now have a single product: XE and all the others are actually modules that plugin into the main products. Hence we shouldn't focus on other products so much IMO. * I'd like to view xwiki.org as a forge of projects. Today our top level projects are the ones listed here: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/ * The main page should be more dynamic and show some news and activity instead of being static * People are confused by the top level navigation vs the second level one because they both use panels and it's not easy to differentiate them Proposal: * Use a horizontal top level navigation with the following items (from left to right): - Overview or Home (the main page) - Platform - Projects (when clicked will list all top level projects) - We could have the list of subproject available as submenu items too (as it's done on http://jboss.org/) - Support (when clicked will explain the various ways to get support including mailing list/forum, irc/jabber, FAQ & listing companies offering commercial support) - Contribute or Community (when clicked we'll get dev.xwiki.org) - Playground This means that the panels on the right will become the second level navigation and the content will depend completely on where you are on the site. * Have some facilities links in the header on the right: - News - Downloads (as a visible button maybe) * On the home page: - Have a nice diagram of the xwiki platform that shows how XE, XE modules are positioned on the platform so that people understand right away that xwiki is a collaborative web dev platform - Have a Highlight box with XE so that users looking for a full- fledged wiki can quickly see it and click on it + maybe one featured screenshot of an entry from the References page that would be different every time the page is refreshed (this could encourage people to add references + provide a link to the references directly) - Have a Featured project box and list 3-4 featured projects (XE, XEM, XEclipse, XOffice for ex to start with) - Have some news: -- latest 5 blog post titles -- latest 5 code zone additions (all snippet, plugins, macro, apps, etc included) -- latest 5 mailing list threads subjects (with links to our nabble forum) We could not have any second level navigation for the home page in order to have more space for displaying the elements above. WDYT? If/when we're ok in term of content maybe Cati (or anyone interested) could provide some mockups of what it could look like. Thanks -Vincent PS: Let's not get bogged down with details at this point. I think what's important is to make progress and refine later on. What's important is that we agree on the broad lines at this stage.

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[xwiki-devs] Escape string assigned to a JavaScript variable from Velocity
by Marius Dumitru Florea 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi devs, I have this code: var content = '$content'; I need to escape the string before it is written to the response because otherwise the JavaScript code can be easily messed up. Is there any utility function/macro in the platform that I can use for this purpose? I couldn't find anything so I wrote a small velocity macro: #** * Escapes the given velocity string before it is assigned to a JavaScipt variable. * The following characters are escaped: \, ", ' and \n. * * @param $string the string to be escaped for JavaScript *# #macro(escapeForJavaScript $string)$!{string.replace('\', '\\').replace('"', '\"').replace("'", "\'").replace("\u000D\u000A", "\u000A").replace("\u000A", '\n')}#end This code can be optimized in Java by traversing the string only once. Should I add a $util.escapeForJS method or the velocity macro to the platform? Thanks, Marius

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-notifications] r27933 - in enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium: . framework
by Sergiu Dumitriu 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On 03/25/2010 07:07 PM, mflorea (SVN) wrote: > Author: mflorea > Date: 2010-03-25 19:07:15 +0100 (Thu, 25 Mar 2010) > New Revision: 27933 > > Modified: > enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium/StandardFeaturesTest.java > enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium/framework/AbstractWysiwygTestCase.java > Log: > XWIKI-5036: WYSIWYG editor doesn't display when creating a document named #"&?\194?\167-_\ > > > Modified: enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium/StandardFeaturesTest.java > =================================================================== > --- enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium/StandardFeaturesTest.java 2010-03-25 18:06:41 UTC (rev 27932) > +++ enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/wysiwyg-tests/src/test/it/com/xpn/xwiki/it/selenium/StandardFeaturesTest.java 2010-03-25 18:07:15 UTC (rev 27933) > @@ -635,4 +635,21 @@ > switchToSource(); > assertSourceText("x"); > } > + > + /** > + * @see XWIKI-5036: WYSIWYG editor doesn't display when creating a document named #"&§-_\ > + */ > + public void testEditPageWithSpecialSymbolsInName() > + { > + clickEditCancelEdition(); > + clickLinkWithLocator("tmCreatePage"); > + waitPage(); All source files should contain only ASCII chars. § is not ASCII, IIRC it's \u00A7 > + setFieldValue("page", "#\"&§-_\\"); > + getSelenium().click("//input[@value = 'Create']"); > + waitPage(); > + waitForEditorToLoad(); > + typeText("This is a test"); > + clickEditPreview(); > + assertTextPresent("This is a test"); > + } > } > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 2.3 Milestone 1 Released
by Jean-Vincent Drean 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 2.3 Milestone 1. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is first milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.3 version. Main changes from 2.2.3: * New annotation feature * New color theme editor * Anonymous commenting with captcha * Lots of bugs fixes For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise23M1 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Introduce wiki related events
by Thomas Mortagne 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi devs, Currently it's not really possible to know that a wiki as been deleted (there is possible hack based on wiki descriptor but it's not more than a hack). The direct issue with that is that anyone having a document based cache can't update it. One good example is Lucene, if you delete a wiki you will still have the related page in the Lucene index. It also means in a cluster that other instances will not know a wiki has been deleted and you can still find pages of this wiki in the documents cache of the other instances. I propose to create a WikiCreatedEvent (to be consistent, and we could use that to do some wiki initialization tasks) and WikiDeletedEvent events. WDYT ? Here is my +1. The related jira issue is http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3966 -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Added xwiki-portlet project to contrib/sandbox
by Marius Dumitru Florea 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi devs, I just added a new project, xwiki-portlet, to contrib/sandbox. Its final target is to handle the integration of an XWiki Enterprise instance inside a JSR286 compatible portal. My current approach is to dispatch portlet requests from a portlet (DispatchPortlet) to an XWiki Enterprise instance running on the same context path. I use a servlet filter to catch these requests on the servlet side and to adjust them. I'm rewriting the XWiki URLs from the response, if content type is text/html, into portlet URLs so that the user can navigate through XWiki pages without leaving the portal. XWiki URLs are mapped to portlet URLs (action/render/resource) through configuration (e.g. /bin/download/ prefix is mapped to a resource request type). The current code is not well documented and there are no tests. It's more or less a proof of concept. I'm still investigating if the current approach covers all the use cases. In order to be able to fully integrate XWiki into a portal we must rewrite some of XWiki's UI to ensure it is isolated from the rest of the portal when in portlet mode. This implies: * making sure the CSS doesn't affect content outside of the XWiki container (the container needs to be defined) * namespacing HTML element ids * namespacing JavaScript global variables The last two points are required to allow two instances of the XWiki portlet to be present on the same portal page and have different state. Thanks, Marius

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