Evelina Slatineanu wrote: > Hi Guys, > > > > I am working on XE-14 (the new Administration UI) > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministration . > > Since the admin templates will be deleted and replaced by an AdminSheet > which will be included by default in XwikiPreferences (wiki level) and > WebPreferences (space level), I need to create the WebPreferences document > for each space, attach an Xwiki.XwikiPreferences object to it and include > the AdminSheet. > > > > To do that, I need to write some java code in the core . So , here's my > proposal: > > > > - At xwiki intitialization create all the WebPreferences for the > currently existing spaces in the wiki (this should be done for all the > wikis, if in a multi-wiki). > > - Then, use a notification system to create the WebPreferences for > any new space in the wiki in one of two ways: > > a) When calling the "view" action on AnySpace.WebPreferences, check if > it exists, if not create it, attach the obj. and include the sheet > > b) When calling the "save" action on AnySpace.AnyDoc, check if > AnySpace.WebPreferences exists, if not, create it etc. >
a) should be used, as there will probably be more save calls on ALL documents in a space, than view on one administration document. Plus, I can view the administration page before saving any document in that space, right? And anyway, the check is not that expensive. > > I am for the second one, since the 'view' is much more often performed than > 'save'. > > So, my questions: what should I use for the notifications? I found this > function in the Stats notification system: > > > > // Adding the rule which will allow this module to be called on each page > view > > context.getWiki().getNotificationManager().addGeneralRule( > > new XWikiActionRule(this, true, true)); > > > > But Thomas said the method above registers all types of notifs, not only on > page view. > > There is also: > > > > notify(XWikiNotificationRule rule, XWikiDocument doc, String action, > > XWikiContext context) > > > > and I can perform an if(action == "save") to use the notif system for the > "save" action. > > > > Thomas Mortagne also told me that this notif system is a little bit outdated > and would be replaced by the observation component, but I have no idea which > I should use. > Use the new observation component. The code is in trunks/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-observation, but there's no example yet on how to register a new listener. I can help you with that, if you want. > > Also, according to the specifs in the draft above, so far I created the > Xwiki.AdminSheet, that will display the main categories (General, > Presentation, Rights, Users, Groups, Import/Export etc). For each section of > this menu I created a sheet (General - > Xwiki.GeneralSheet etc.) in which I > can personalize the display. I also created Xwiki.AdminSectionSheet which > contains the common code to display the fields necessary from the > Xwiki.XwikiPreferences object and this sheet will be included in the > sections where is needed (Genera, Presentation etc.) The reason I created > separated sheets for each section of the menu (which are fixed as number) is > to keep the code clean and allow the possibility to display something else > than fields from the xwiki prefs. object (for example for rights, users, > groups, import/export). > +1 for several distinct sheets. More extensible and modular. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
