June 2007 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

Re: [xwiki-users] On Which Features Should I Focus When Testing?
by Catalin Hritcu 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Hi Ian, Thanks for the clarification. On 6/12/07, Ian Bamsey <ian.bamsey(a)certus-tech.com> wrote: > The XML-RPC is a useful way to integrate Wiki content into other > applications. Currently the update-page RPC is broken. You can > successfully change the page, but you don't see the results via the > browser HTML view. The page update will show only once you restart > Tomcat. So my point is that a unit test which picks up this bug would be > useful, once the bug has been resolved to prevent regression. > You are right that this is an annoying bug (see also http://tinyurl.com/2e69xj) and before fixing such bugs it would make a lot of sense to build a test that prevents regression in the future. XWiki developers have a lot to learn once it comes to testing, but we hope that things will only get better in the future. For now all I can advise you to do is to make sure that the bug is reported properly on the JIRA (http://jira.xwiki.org) (couldn't check since the JIRA is temporarily unavailable). If you want to discuss more about this bug then please use the thread I gave you: http://tinyurl.com/2e69xj > My point about code structure is that the code which updates a page from > a RPC should be the same code which updates the page from anywhere else. > One problem I see in XWiki is that functions are repeatedly coded in all > different places, giving rise to these types of problems. > As Sergiu suggests this is most likely related to caching. Don't think that XWiki functionality is coded twice, but if have a concrete example in the code then we would like to know about it. Regards, Catalin > Catalin Hritcu wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > And thank you for the feedback. > > > > On 6/11/07, Ian Bamsey <ian.bamsey(a)certus-tech.com> wrote: > >> A useful set of unit tests would exercise the XML-RPC interfaces and > >> verify the effect in the HTML view. > >> > >> For example: > >> > >> 1. Use XML-RPC to create/modify a page > >> 2. Assert the page changes via the HTML view. > >> > > Sorry, but I don't understand why such a use case would be relevant > > when functional testing. I think hardly any end-user uses XML-RPC > > directly. And if I was to test the XML-RPC API, I don't understand why > > would I need to check the results in a web browser (assuming this is > > what you mean by "the HTML view?"). Maybe you can explain better why > > this would be useful. > > > >> In milestone 1, this does not work and I don't think it has been > >> corrected. > >> > > Can you give more details of this issue? Is it related to this JIRA > > issue http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWSUP-1688 ? Do the others > > know more about this? > > > >> The important point here is that well structured code would have the RPC > >> call use the same function call as the HTML call. > >> > > What exactly do you mean by HTML call? I'm confused. > > > >> The UT would then > >> verify the underlying call, then supplementary UTs would check the HTML, > >> XML-RPC alone, then further tests check there interaction. > >> > > Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Can you please explain > > better? > > > > Regards, > > Catalin > > > > > > > -- > Certus Technology Associates Limited. > http://www.certus-tech.com > Tel: +44 (0)1392 270930 > >

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Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki down?
by wangwh＠att.net 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

XWiki farm is in trouble again? -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: wangwh(a)att.net > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> > > > > > > On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:35 AM, wangwh(a)att.net wrote: > > > > > >> several sites, include www.xwiki.com are down? not accessible? > > >> Any status report? > > > > > > Yes we're having some issues. Sorry about that. We're on it. I'll > > > let you know when it's fixed. > > > > Seems it's been working fine for several hours now. Let us know if > > you still have some problems. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > >

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Importing xar file
by jinoy jinoy 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Hi, can anybody suggest me, how to import xar file automatically. thank you jinoy

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Calendar in Home Page
by tcampbell106＠wssu.edu 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hi All, I am a user who is developing an xwiki for my research team. I am faced with two tasks that I am baffled by and I did research on the site and still can not find it. I need to put rights on the topmenuheader (meaning only administrator can see it) and I need to embed the calendar on the Main.Home (or dashboard) page. Please help with this problem. Thanks in advance, Tim

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Creating only structured documents in a space
by roopesh＠digitalglue.in 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hi I am creating "structured documents" in a particular space say, XSpace, which follows a "document template". But if I try to edit or view a non existing document, say ADoc, in XSpace : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XSpace/ADoc or http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/edit/XSpace/ADoc Xwiki allows me to create a new document, but the newly created document does not follow the "document template". I want to prevent this from happening. Can anyone please tell me how I can do this. Thanks and Regards Roopesh

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Survey/Poll Application
by shivshan 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hi Has anyone already created a Survey/Poll application? While it might be easy to setup a simple survey form, there are other factors that have to be considered. This page has more details: http://old.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/Polls Looks like a lot of work for a non-Xwiki admin to create a new poll. Regards Shiva -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Survey-Poll-Application-tf3927828.html#a11139296 Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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logging & caching problem
by Thomas Krämer 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

hello all, besides: i did a sort of remote control for group and user management using a rest approach: far from perfect, but working stable. why? you can syncronize the xwiki users and groups if you integrate xwiki with another app. haven't had the time yet to add it to the source, but as it is actually something that is not situated inside the xwiki at runtime but the other app, i cannot figure out where to put it. the issues i try to deploy xwiki on a debian 3.1 web server. it works almost fine, except two exceptions that keep me worrying: first, the logger cannot start its work, the xwiki.log is in the xwiki directory under webapps. second, the cache can not be configured, even though there *is* a directory under xwiki temnp/imageCache, that is writeable for tomcat5:nogroup. stack trace below. ERROR 22:42:01,888 com.opensymphony.oscache.base.AbstractCacheAdministrator.(AbstractCacheAdministrator.java:301) - Error instantiating class 'com.opensymphony.oscache.plugins.diskpersistence.DiskPersistenceListener' java.lang.NullPointerException at com.opensymphony.oscache.plugins.diskpersistence.AbstractDiskPersistenceListener.configure(AbstractDiskPersistenceListener.java:162) . . . ERROR 22:42:01,891 com.opensymphony.oscache.plugins.diskpersistence.AbstractDiskPersistenceListener.(AbstractDiskPersistenceListener.java:284) - cache.path 'temp/imageCache' is not a directory ERROR 22:42:01,892 com.opensymphony.oscache.base.AbstractCacheAdministrator.(AbstractCacheAdministrator.java:301) - Error instantiating class 'com.opensymphony.oscache.plugins.diskpersistence.DiskPersistenceListener' java.lang.NullPointerException at -- ontopica Thomas Krämer Krämer&Okpue GbR Kurfürstenstr. 66 53115 Bonn Fon +49 228 - 180 99 737 Fax +49 228 - 242 78 60 Email tk(a)ontopica.de

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Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki down?
by wangwh＠att.net 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Confirmed. It works. Wei-hsing -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> > > > On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:35 AM, wangwh(a)att.net wrote: > > > >> several sites, include www.xwiki.com are down? not accessible? > >> Any status report? > > > > Yes we're having some issues. Sorry about that. We're on it. I'll > > let you know when it's fixed. > > Seems it's been working fine for several hours now. Let us know if > you still have some problems. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >

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xwiki down?
by wangwh＠att.net 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

several sites, include www.xwiki.com are down? not accessible? Any status report?

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downloading the correct file
by Karin Wiklund 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hi, I don't know if you're aware of it so I'll tell you either way: when you download the .war and .xar files from the French mirror site i Paris you get .zip files instead of .war or .xar. Caused me a bunch of problems before I realised it... //Karin

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