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[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] Features of Solr Search Component
by savitha sundaramurthy 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hello all, Following is the link explaining the Current implemented features of Solr Search component. http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Solr+Feature+Page The current running instance is present here: http://ec2-50-19-181-163.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Search… Kindly give your feedback. -- Thanks, Savitha

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[xwiki-devs] [GSoC] [Request] Responsive Skin - data for extensive testing/bug finds/feature requests
by Jonathan Solichin 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello Friends, As you may or may not know, I have been working on a responsive skin for XWiki for GSOC (http://23.21.87.183:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome) As I continue to add further details and refinements into the skin, I would like to kindly ask for your help in doing so. In order to make sure that I did not miss anything and the skin is as complete as possible, I would like to, if possible, request a XAR of an existing wiki (or complex pages) so that I may see the result of implementing the skin on more than the default wiki data. If this is not a possible, I would like to still enlist your help in testing some basic/your favorite functionality/features of xwiki. There are several ways to do this: - By downloading the current skin and testing it on your XWiki: https://github.com/jssolichin/xo5 - By playing around with the live instance (uses default admin user/password): http://23.21.87.183:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome - By letting me know of your favorite applications (so that I may look into implementing them) Anything you want to note is fine. Bug and feature request are both welcome, as I think communal ideas are often better than one. Even if you did not have a chance to play too much with the skin, go ahead and let me know what you think I should check on (based on your experience) and/or give me any suggestions that may have come up while reading this. Technicality permitting, I will check myself. Helping with this process will help make the skin better, and maybe help it to be tailored to your (/type of) wiki and the community surrounding the platform in general. Thank you in advance for your time! Jonathan Solichin

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[xwiki-devs] m2eclipse and xwiki-commons
by Gary Kopp 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello devs, I just finished porting my XWiki development environment from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04. I am now able to build all projects from the command line without errors. I'm working with the master branch from Git. I have Eclipse Juno installed with plugins that include m2eclipse (the version from the Eclipse update site) and AJDT. I am now trying to import the entire xwiki-commons Maven project into Eclipse. Just as happened under Windows (which I never asked about, since I was still trying to get command line builds to work), there are three Maven goals (plugins) in the xwiki-commons projects that fail to map to Eclipse plugins -- aspectJ-maven-plugin, maven-antrun-plugin, and maven-remote-resources-plugin. Can anyone give me some hints on how to resolve these mapping problems? Googling for answers about this hasn't yielded anything that I can understand :-) --Gary

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[xwiki-devs] Maven Profiles
by Gary Kopp 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello again, Sergiu provided a Maven eclipse:eclipse command line to use, and it reminded me that I have so far ignored the issue of Maven profiles. When I built from the command line I didn't specify any profiles, and I'm guessing that defaulted to hsqldb,jetty (among other profiles). My real target is pgsql and Tomcat. So I should probably rebuild with -Pci,integration-tests,legacy,pgsql. For Tomcat deployment, all I really want is a WAR file. I'm guessing I'm going to have to include the jetty profile as well, even though I'm not targeting Jetty. xwiki-enterpirse-jetty pulls in needed generic web stuff and the only other way to get that would be to use the glassfish profile. There is no Tomcat profile. From what I see in the POMs, the only downside of specifying the jetty profile when Tomcat is being targeted is that it will pull in xwiki-platform-tool-jetty-resources, which will package up a complete Jetty runtime that I can then ignore. OTOH, maybe I should take the path of least resistance and use Jetty instead of Tomcat for the time being. Do I have this right? --Gary

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[xwiki-devs] Hackathon 2012 is starting!
by Vincent Massol 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hi everyone, A while back we announced the XWiki Hackathon 2012: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/a4tf3fg5s5okjadw The hackathon period is now starting and will last till the 27th of July. If you're interested in participating, put your name on this page with the topic you've chosen: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Hackathon2012/WebHome Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] [Refactoring Notification] XWIKI ANDROID
by sasinda rukshan 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi, All, Thomas Just to notify a design decision. Since you said to notify on major decisions, There is a little issue in the earlier projects RestConnector. module "xwiki-android-rest" I' ll take a sample method where you can check. public Page getPage(String pageName) in PageResources. If the page is not found in the server the underlying HttpConnector will get a "404 not found".(there are other situations as well ex: unauthorized etc...) Currently these are not identified in the low level rest connector. So I deprecated the "class Requests" (because I don't wont to break application layer code in the earlier project) . Made a new class that throws the exceptions up. Also some methods as "public String addPage(Page page)" return the response codes up to the Application layer . This does not seem a good idea for me. The knowledge of response codes should be handled in there itself. An exception should be thrown for unsuccessful operations. Currently String "error" is passed up for IOExceptions. I re-factored back to throw RestConnectionException for IO errors. I will introduce a new exception RestException , to be thrown at these exceptional situations. What is you opinion on introducing exceptions? The current exception hierarchy is as follows. Exceptions at RestConnector (low level fine grained XWiki Restful API) RestConnectionException : for IO errors RestException : to capture and throw as a exception, 404, 401, 405..... Exceptions at the Restful Access Layer. RestAPIUsageException : runtime exception. For things that cannot be handled. RALException : RestException are wrapped. Well in a more friendly manner. ex: add object to a Document in a document update operation. Client App is ignorantly adding a object to a page that is not yet even created. So a 405 is returned. This is thrown as a RestException from the Connector layer(low level) At the RAL we see the 405 and identify that this was because page was not created earlier. We wrap the RestException in RALException and give the more friendlier message.( Also note that the client can handle this exceptional situation by asking the RAL to do a create document) Can you give your opinion on this? Regards Sasinda.

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[xwiki-devs] Errors Building xwiki-commons
by Gary Kopp 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

I am unable to build xwiki-commons from the command line. First, I had to skip tests, and then, after I tweaked my setup to get back to Java 6 (I typically use Java 7), Maven debug output includes the text pasted below. The empty "bad path element" of "" has me baffled, but I'm ignoring that for the moment. Meanwhile, can anyone explain the problem with AetherExtensionRepository? [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) on project xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: [ERROR] bad path element "": no such file or directory [ERROR] S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-commons-ex tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main\java\ org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionRepository.jav a:[107,22] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR] location: class org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionRepository [ERROR] S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-commons-ex tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main\java\ org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionRepository.jav a:[110,8] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR] location: class org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionRepository [ERROR] [ERROR] S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-commons-ex tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main\java\ org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionRepository.jav a:[107,22] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR] location: class org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionRepository [ERROR] S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-commons-ex tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main\java\ org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionRepository.jav a:[110,8] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR] location: class org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionRepository --Gary

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[xwiki-devs] Enterprise Build Problem (quartz?)
by Gary Kopp 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

I finally found and fixed my stupid error in getting XWiki builds to run from the command line (the presence of non-breaking space characters in settings.xml I copied and pasted from the web page), so I decided to start at the top and run mvn install against xwiki-enterprise. I didn't use any profile, although maybe I should. The build reported the following failure: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-packager-plugin:4.2-SNAPSHOT:import (default) on p roject xwiki-enterprise-database-hsqldb: Execution default of goal org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-packager-plugi n:4.2-SNAPSHOT:import failed: Plugin org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-tool-packager-plugin:4.2-SNAPSHOT or one of its d ependencies could not be resolved: The following artifacts could not be resolved: org.opensymphony.quartz:quartz:jar:1.6 .5, com.google:googleapi:jar:xwiki:UNKNOWN, info.informatica:css4j:jar:0.13, info.informatica:jclf:jar:2.3.0, jtidy:jtid y:jar:8.0-20060801.131059-3-dev, org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-confluence:jar:xwiki:1.2-20080419, com.yahoo.platform.yui: yuicompressor:jar:2.4.2-xwiki, edu.emory.mathcs.util:emory-util-classloader:jar:2.1, edu.emory.mathcs.util:emory-util-io :jar:2.1, edu.emory.mathcs.util:emory-util-security:jar:2.1, uk.ac.ed.ph.snuggletex:snuggletex-core:jar:1.1.0, uk.ac.ed. ph.snuggletex:snuggletex-jeuclid:jar:1.1.0, org.artofsolving.jodconverter:jodconverter-core:jar:3.0-beta-4-xwiki-2011082 2: Could not find artifact org.opensymphony.quartz:quartz:jar:1.6.5 in central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) -> I guess if you distill that all down Maven is really complaining about the quartz jar. I'm running Maven 3.0.4 on 64-bit Windows 7 with JDK 1.7. I used the master branch, which I re-pulled a couple of hours ago. Did I miss a step? --Gary

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[xwiki-devs] Are Outside Developers Really Welcome?
by Gary Kopp 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

To XWiki SAS, and non-affiliated XWiki developers: While XWiki meets the technical requirements of being "open source," so far I have found it to be a bit "closed" in its pragmatic aspects. The developers actually interacting in public on this list all seem to be employees of the sponsors, and the communications seem to restrict themselves to development going on internally. Over the last week or so, questions coming in from "outsiders" (like myself) go unanswered. It's not necessarily atypical for open source sponsors to be unresponsive to outsiders, but the better open source projects still encourage the active committers to provide some level of support for potential contributors. Beyond that, when outside "hackers" (meant in a positive sense) are tinkering with an open source project they typically do offer their own contributions to questions raised on development mailing lists, in those open source projects where such activity is possible and/or encouraged. I see no evidence of outsider developers/hackers in the XWiki project. What finally led me to write this e-mail is my inability to build XWiki from source. I was initially encouraged by the presence of quite a bit of information about building in the wiki documents. But when I actually tried to put the instructions into practice I found them to be less than complete, and unable to be followed to a successful conclusion (while the purpose of this e-mail is not to get help with these problems, I will note that most of my problems revolve around Maven). I have reached the conclusion that the only people really able to build XWiki are its sponsors, using their own procedures, and these procedures are _not_ those currently found on the wiki. I hope I am wrong about this. So, are outside developers encouraged to participate? Is any XWiki development going on outside of the sponsoring organizations? If so, do those developers find the current building documentation to be adequate, and I'm simply not up to the task? --Gary

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[xwiki-devs] Trying to Understand Repositories
by Gary Kopp 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

I'm just beginning my exploration of XWiki from a development standpoint, and I could use a little help in figuring out the structure of the XWiki source repository in terms of release versions. I see the use of both branches and tags in the Git repository. At this point I guess I really only have two basic questions. What version of a project such as xwiki-platform is supposed to be in the "master" branch? At this point in time, would I be correct in assuming that it is the current state of 4.2M1? IOW, master is always the current status of the upcoming release? If I'm wrong about that, how is the code for 4.2[M1] identified in Git? Beyond that, does Git contain under-development code beyond the next release, and if so how is it identified? My second basic question concerns identifying code in Git that matches a given past (or current) production release. For example, what would I checkout to capture the state of the source code as of the public release of 4.1.3? I see a branch for "stable-4.1.x" and also a tag for "xwiki-platform-4.1.3" (among a surprisingly large number of tags) when looking at the xwiki-platform project, and the distinction is not clear to me. I've been through everything I could find in the wiki and didn't find anything that answered these questions. TIA. --Gary

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