+1 for the idea and /plain/
It would be very nice for URL esthetics and REST simulation to have /plain/ and 
/feed/ but I am wondering if these align with the other actions we have: in the 
end, plain and feed rendering are still visualisations of the content 
(therefore 
"view" actions).

+1 for /feed/ with modifications: even if the viewable result for xpage=plain 
and xpage=rdf are the same, it's a different content type we're sending and 
that's good (particularly, rdf sends text/xml). The fact that modern browsers 
and readers handle the content the same it only means those are smart enough. 
Even if text/xml it's not the very right content type either, I think it is 
preferable over text/html.

Happy coding,
Anca


Jerome Velociter wrote:
> Hello devs,
> 
> Yesterday I've applied Marius's XWIKI-2149 patch "Extend the FeedPlugin to
> allow the creation of RSS/Atom feeds from any source". New RSS urls with
> this revamped  mechanism are of the type
> "/xwiki/bin/view/Space/DocRss?xpage=plain" (while the current way is
> /xwiki/bin/view/Space/DocRss?xpage=rdf"). I propose we add an action that
> return the "plain.vm" velocity template as entry point to render the
> document, and map a new "/feed/" action to it. This would allow us for
> example to have a blog feed URL like this : "/xwiki/bin/feed/Main/BlogRss"
> when the blog will actually use this new mechanism for its feed.
> I would also like to map an action with a more generic name to it, like
> "/plain/". "xpage=plain" is for example used when we create pseudo-REST
> web services (for example, all the AJAX/gridview features in XE do use
> URLs of that type). I believe it would be nice to have in the service
> request URL only parameters linked to the actual service. Thus I would
> propose we have something like
> "/xwiki/bin/plain/XWiki/MyService?myparam1=myvalue&..."
> 
> I am +1 for doing this, WDYT ?
> 
> Now, I have a working version of this on my computer, but I'm not very
> happy how it is done. basically, I followed the way the "attach" action
> works : I added a PlainAction in com.xpn.xwiki.web that just returns
> "plain" on render, and added the following action in struts-config action
> mappings :
> 
> <action path="/feed/"
>    type="com.xpn.xwiki.web.PlainAction"
>    name="feed"
>    scope="request">
>      <forward name="feed" path="/templates/plain.vm"/>
> </action>
> 
> Is there a nicer way of doing this with struts ?
> (At first, I tried to use "global-forwards" like <forward name="feed"
> path="/templates/plain.vm"/>, but without success.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jerome.
> 
> 
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