On 5 mars 08, at 16:38, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Currently the logic is spread around all the platform. There is code > in > the Struts actions, in the XWiki giant, in the data model, in > templates, > in documents, in plugins (FileUpload, for example), so writing > restlets > that reuse this spread logic will be very inefficient: > - search all around the code to see how to do something > - duplicate code > - copy the bugs along with the code > - increase even more the mess > > And we can't just completely replace the servlets (and their URLs) > with > the new REST approach, as all the bookmarks and knowledge about the > URLs > would be broken, so people will not upgrade. So we either reimplement > them using the new app logic layer, or write an URL rewrite engine > that > forwards to the new IRIs.
After your message things are a more clear. I was just assuming that the "XWiki API" was already the layer you were talking about. But it is clearly not the case. And, of course, I totally agree on having a layer that factors things for maximum reuse in different contexts. So maybe we could rule out the RESTful XWiki, leave the WebDAV one (that on the user side is actually a super-set) and replace it with what Sergiu was proposing? WDYT? Cheers, Fabio _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
