May 2013 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [SRD] Some broken pages
by Jeremie BOUSQUET 19 May '13

19 May '13

Hi all, I found some broken links in the SRD page on xwiki.org [1]. Say, for example, when clicking on $services.localization: Not Found The requested URL /site/docs/xwiki-javadoc-4.1.x/org/xwiki/localization/script/internal/LocalizationScriptService.html was not found on this server. BR, Jeremie [1] - http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD/Navigation?xpage=embed> /Navigation?xpage=embed<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD/Navigation?xpage=embed>

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Make it simpler to configure XWiki when there's only 1 wiki
by Vincent Massol 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi devs, Now that the virtual mode is on by default our users are having troubles when they install 5.0.1. It's the second time in 2 days that I have to help someone. The issue is that users will want to use URLs such: http://myhost/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome And those URLs don't work anymore by default (which can be seen as a regression). So I'm proposing the following change for 5.0.2/5.1M1: * If there's only 1 wiki configured then always point to the main wiki. WDYT? We need to make it easy again to use XWiki initially. Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] User Directory - Organogram
by Hamster 16 May '13

16 May '13

It is possible to use the XWikiUserClass for an organogram? Example <http://blog.i-love-it.be/useruploads/18/images/organogram_5bi.png> I would love to make an organogram, and populate it with the profile picture and other info (department, phone number, ect) This way, new people in our organisation can just look at the organogram to see who is who! :-) -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/User-Directory-Organogram-tp7584711.html Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center
by Flower Platform Team 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello GSoC Mentors, As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students. Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools (Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little bit on code as well). We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic (i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3]. If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by Flower Dev Center? REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc. REMARK2: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers. REMARK3: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0 Thank you in advance! Best regards, Mircea @ The Flower Platform Team. [1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com [2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_de… [3] - Text version with same content as the above video - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower…

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Iteration] Solr Search Interface
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi devs, This is an iteration based on the current work done on the Solr Search. You can view some overview mockups at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/SolrSearch/ove… http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/SolrSearch/ove… For more detailed mockups, see the proposal http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SolrSearch This proposal is keeping all the implemented functionality, adds some styling and changes a bit the facets zone. Next step, I want to iterate a bit on some filter elements, but the layout shouldn't suffer changes. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Solution to make it easy to debug JS in XWiki
by Vincent Massol 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi devs, ATM the solution is described here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Debugging#HDebuggingJavaScript What would you think about doing this instead: * Package both the minimized and the non minimized version in our WAR (it shouldn't add too much weight to our overall WAR size) * Have a directory structure like this: resources/.../<module>/ |_ <non minified js file here> |_ min/<minified js files here> * This would allow to put in our xwikivars.vm something like (pseudo code): #if ("$!request.minify" == 'false') #set ($jsDir = '/') #else #set ($jsDir = 'min/' #end * Then everywhere we reference JS files we use $jsDir. For example in attachmentsinline.vm: $xwiki.jsfx.use('uicomponents/widgets/${jsDir}upload.js', {'forceSkinAction': true, 'language': ${xcontext.language}}) … This would allow to remove the "debug" profile and make it much faster to debug XWiki issues, even in production systems. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Feedback] Search Requirements
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hi, We introduced in XWiki 4.3 a new experimental search based on Apache Solr [A] . Right now our Solr Search [B] is marked as experimental and I don't know how many of you got a chance to play a bit with it. In order for it to become default we need to make sure we are covering the major use cases. So in this mail we should provide some feedback on what is really needed from a relevance, user experience, performance, etc. point of view. I am very interested also in some general feedback on the Lucene Search: major problems you had with it and limitations. The following questions are mostly related to Solr Search: 1) The Solr implementation adds a 'Filtered Search'. Are all filters that are available now needed (wiki, space, type, filetype)? Are we missing some? What is the most important one? Should we have multiple select? >From a technical point of view we could add a lot of things (object properties, query boost, etc.) but I'm more interested, in production, what are some advanced or common use cases of search usage. IMO our Lucene implementation is too simplistic, but it would be a shame to add useless complexity to the Solr one if we really don't need it. On the other hand having a customizable search is a really nice thing. The customization part is kind of complex, but also the most powerful. I want to know how much would we need the ability to explicitly mention the types of results we want vs. excluding things, etc. 2) The Solr search adds a 'Sort' feature. What do you think about that? 3) Search result metadatas: should we display the relevance? What other information should be displayed besides name, location, type? 4) Other mentions. Having a generic search is more complex, than knowing exactly what your search needs to return. We need to make sure we don't add too many niche things while keeping the functionality satisfiable for general use cases. Thanks, Caty --------------- [A] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki43#HExper… [B] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Solr+Search+Application

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Introduce a new API method in order to be able to check an user password
by Thomas Delafosse 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hello all, I've been working on some improvements on user changing password (see XWiki-6882). In particular, I tried to make mandatory, for an user wanting to change his password, to submit also his current password, so that I could check it. The problem is that there is no way to make this check through velocity. I tried to use some groovy instead, but it breaks the functional tests. So I need to introduce a new method "checkPassword" accessible from velocity scripts. The question is, where should I implement it ? There are two possibilities 1) Wrote a new component 2) Add this method in an existing API. I don't really like 1), as I feel it would be strange to introduce a new service with only one method. In the meanwhile, for 2), I don't really know in which API this method could fit. Sergiu told me that I could perhaps put it in com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.rightsmanager.RightsManagerPluginApi, but that it wasn't really good either. Any ideas ? Cheers, Thomas

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Override the HTML macro in platform
by Thomas Delafosse 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi all, For security reasons, I would like to be able to perform some rights checking in the HTML macro (i.e I would like to forbid use of scripts to untrusted users). But as the HTML macro is currently defined only in xwiki-rendering, I can't do anything like that (xwiki-rendering should be independent from the platform). So, I would like to override the HTML macro in platform, in order to be able to perform the security checks I want. Does this seems acceptable to you ? Thanks, Thomas

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Move Document Events from bridge to model module
by Vincent Massol 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi devs, I'd like to copy all Document*Event in xwiki-platform-model/src/main/java/org/xwiki/model/event/* and deprecate (move to legacy) all the ones in the bridge module. It seems they don't need XWikiContext, XWikiDocument or the like so it should be pretty easy. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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