OK, following you suggestions I changed a couple of things; first of all, added a parent to each new page... page.setParentId("XWiki.XWikiGroups"); to each new group; with that there seems to be no difference between a group created via UI vs a group created via XML-RPC also to user pages with... page.setParentId("XWiki.XWikiUsers"); that solved one of my questions... Then I tried using a different Id (an integer) for each XWikiObject used for membership. That allowed me to add all the users so as you said, now they won't be overwriting the same one. (BTW the example for creating users in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XMLRPCJavaExamples is wrong as it would overwrite always the last user added with the same code in the Group XWikiAllGroup) BUT, what I see now is that if I DO TRY to overwrite an user using the same Id, they won't overwrite the same user. I mean, if I do the following: // add a member XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject(); xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups"); xobjgrp.setPageId("XWiki.XWikiAllGroup"); xobjgrp.setId(1); xobjgrp.setProperty("member","username1"); rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp); // again, same member (sounds stupid, don't you think?) XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject(); xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups"); xobjgrp.setPageId("XWiki.XWikiAllGroup"); xobjgrp.setId(1); xobjgrp.setProperty("member","username1"); rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp); What I get is TWO membership objects for "username1" in the same Group page. I thought I would overwrite the first one with the second. Maybe you think "this guy is nuts, now he complains they're not overwriting each other..." :) but my code is not like above, of course; but it would be nice if each night, when re-populating and creating new users and the like, if I just try to re-enter the membership for a user already a member, I could do it without ending with repeated membership Else, I need a way to read the XWikiObjects in a page, get the Ids, get the "member" properties and so find out if an user is already a member (so I skip it) or it needs to get added (so I use max(Id)+1 as new Id, and there are no examples for accesing Objects in a Page via XML-RPC So tomorrow I will start playing with rpc.getObjects("XWiki.XWikiAllGroup") :) Thanks in advance -----Mensaje original----- De: devs-bounces@xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] En nombre de Riveira Faraldo, Bernardo Enviado el: jueves, 16 de junio de 2011 18:02 Para: XWiki Developers Asunto: Re: [xwiki-devs] creating groups via XML-RPC Thank you Florin, Sergiu, Eduard! Will try your suggestions and I'll tell you. Bernardo -----Mensaje original----- De: devs-bounces@xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] En nombre de Florin Ciubotaru Enviado el: jueves, 16 de junio de 2011 17:49 Para: XWiki Developers Asunto: Re: [xwiki-devs] creating groups via XML-RPC Hi Bernardo, As Eduard said the REST API is newer and has a better traction, though it doesn't match the entire XML-RPC functionality(eg: syntax conversion). Your use case is typical for some RPC style automation and our API should work just fine. Regarding your issue: The XWikiObject entities also have an "id" property which identifies them in a document. Incrementing that property should prevent the storeObject(..) code from overriding the previous objects(group members). I didn't test the java client for the xml-rpc, but I doubt there's something wrong with it. To see a more clear representation of the model you could check these sources(.net mapping): - http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xoffice/trunk/xword/Connectivity/Clients/... Hope this helps, Florin Ciubotaru 2011/6/16 Riveira Faraldo, Bernardo <briveira@mundo-r.net>
Hi there!
We are trying to use XWiki 3.0 enterprise, trying to create via XML-RPC thousands of users, groups and membership programmatically so we can keep updated AD, Liferay, other sources of users, other apps, all with CAS integration, etc.
As there is still no confluence 2.0 API compatibility but we need to create users & groups in XWiki from an external software, we have been collecting pieces of code from messages and FAQs about how to implement it.
We try to create users, their pages, and add them to the XWikiAllGroup with :
Page page = new Page();
page.setSpace("XWiki");
page.setTitle("username01");
page.setId("XWiki.username01");
page.setContent("{{include document=\"XWiki.XWikiUserSheet\"/}}");
rpc.storePage(page);
XWikiObject xobj = new XWikiObject();
xobj.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiUsers");
xobj.setPageId("XWiki.username01");
xobj.setProperty("first_name", "name");
xobj.setProperty("last_name", "last name");
xobj.setProperty("email", "email@email.com");
xobj.setProperty("password","##########");
rpc.storeObject(xobj);
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("XWiki.XWikiAllGroup");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username01");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
(Suppose we run that with username01 to username99)
Although first time we run this, the page gets created, the user gets created but the properties not! :-o
If we run again the import, then every user gets their properties. :-?
Then, only the LAST user created gets correctly added to XWiki.XWikiAllGroup. If we stop/debug the program between each user creation process, always the last one appears at XWiki.XWikiAllGroup when checking via UI. So they are all there for a moment, until they are replaced by the last one. Like if the rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp) deleted previously any other user in that XWiki.XWikiAllGroup page.
Then we try to create groups using this:
// create group 01
Page page = new Page();
page.setSpace("XWiki");
page.setTitle("group01");
page.setContent("{{include document='XWiki.XWikiGroupSheet' /}}");
rpc.storePage(page);
// create group 02
Page page = new Page();
page.setSpace("XWiki");
page.setTitle("group02");
page.setContent("{{include document='XWiki.XWikiGroupSheet' /}}");
rpc.storePage(page);
...
Those "Groups" get created as Pages with XWikiGroupSheet app that allows us to see/edit the users via UI, but we need to add them via XML-RPC.
ALSO, they are Pages, but they are NOT EXACTLY the same as if they where created via the Admin UI, where when you create a "Group" it shows slightly differently:
Autocreated via XML-RPC:
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Versus when a group is created via Admin UI, it shows up differently, just like this:
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SO, we suppose the way we create a Group via XML-RPC (just a Page with a special Sheet) is NOT ENOUGH.
And finally we try to add existing users to newly created groups with code like this:
// user 01 to group 01
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("group01");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username01");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
// user 01 to group 02
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("group02");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username01");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
// user 02 to group 01
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("group01");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username02");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
// user 03 to group 01
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("group01");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username02");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
...
If now we check the group via UI, we can find Pages named XWiki.group01 , XWiki.group02, and with only one user each (although in the code up there username 01, 02 and 03 should be members of group01 !!! only THE LAST ONE (username03) remains.
Also we tried to add also some users to the default (pre-created) XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup so they can act as administrators:
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username01");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
XWikiObject xobjgrp = new XWikiObject();
xobjgrp.setClassName("XWiki.XWikiGroups");
xobjgrp.setPageId("XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup");
xobjgrp.setProperty("member","XWiki.username02");
rpc.storeObject(xobjgrp);
As before only XWiki.username02 stays as member of XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup.
We tried this with a fresh install of XWikiEnt3.0+Jetty+HSQLDB, then in Tomcat+MySQL, same problem in all of them.
So, are we doing something wrong? Maybe something must be done with every user or group before you can add membership via XML-RPC?
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance!
Bernardo Riveira
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