I think this is more a matter of what JSPWiki actually _is_, which is a wiki
engine. Everything that gets added to its core that is not part of the wiki
engine, i.e., is not a plugin, can be considered bloat by anyone not using
those extra features. The project has been around for a very long time in a
form that people have found useful. Adding code to any project is code that
needs to be maintained, and potentially adds exploits that need to be managed.
I was always happy to augment JSPWiki via plugins, and over the years I've
written upwards of fifty of them, and integrated JSPWiki into larger
applications
because the core was reasonably small, flexible, extensible, and stable.
I frankly can no longer follow the number and frequency of changes that have
been occurring to the code base recently so I perhaps have little else to add
other than I do hope that in the end all these changes don't break things or
otherwise render JSPWiki incompatible with existing use by the existing user
base.
On 27/11/25 09:38, Alex O'Ree (Jira) wrote:
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Alex O'Ree commented on JSPWIKI-1102:
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And even cached files need to be processed by the rendering engine.
True, but we're talking about milliseconds in the browser, and about 40KB of js
and css to download. Unless you're on a dial up or satcom, this won't matter,
but fair enough. The webjar is 400k so the distribution would go up slightly.
The ticket said: "only loaded in pages which require charts" - is that no
longer an option?
It still is an option. I can look into the behavior thing and the dynamic
script injection but i haven't found any documentation on how to add a new
behavior or how it's integrated. [~brushed] you seemed to be the last
contributor for related files. Can you provide some insight on this? The public
wiki has a bit of a gap in this area. See
[https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Haddock%20Template#section-Haddock+Template-HowToExtendTheHaddockTemplate]
Pulling from a CDN is really not an option IMO. So if this is merged, it would
be included it, either via webjars, a plugin or just outright copy and paste
the resources into the war/src/main/webapp/scripts. The existing PR is webjars
based, so it would be included in the war and distros and someone manageable
with maven. Anyone else have a better option?
Every unnecessary dependency can pull in unnecessary bugs and security leaks.
[~weberjn] We can say that about many of the ancient 20 year + unmaintained
dependencies that we currently have too. There's less risk with chartist since
it's at least somewhat supported than with the existing baggage that we have
been dragging around. If you think this is an unnecessary change set, let's do
a vote on the mailing list and put this to rest.
Still seems like a useful feature to me. In the mean time, i'll to make the
changes when i have time. If one of you wants to take this over or adjust the
implementation, please do so. Comment back and i'll let someone else take over.
Add charting library to JSPWiki distribution
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Key: JSPWIKI-1102
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-1102
Project: JSPWiki
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Templates and UI
Reporter: Dirk Frederickx
Assignee: Alex O'Ree
Priority: Minor
Attachments: image-2025-11-23-14-07-13-571.png
Add a charting library to JSPWiki for easy rendering data in TABLE's as line,
pie- or bar-charts.
The charting library should provide well chosen defaults to keep the extra
markup as little as possible.
Proposal:
Include [https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/] (MIT license) in the
standard JSPWiki's distribution.
* small footprint (10K zipped JS; only loaded in pages with require charts)
* usage of svg; high quality device independent
* highly customizable; but using 'convention over configuration' (great
defaults)
* responsive (great output on mobile devices)
Prereq: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-1040
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