On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> The second proposal is a temporary hack for hiding documents. The >>> idea >>> is to add a new field in the XWikiDocument class, 'hidden', which >>> will >>> be automatically used in searchDocuments and countDocuments to >>> filter >>> out special documents. This is a workaround until we will be able to >>> tag >>> special documents or spaces, and will allow to create special >>> documents >>> needed for an application inside the main application's space, >>> instead >>> of the generic XWiki space. Such hidden pages won't appear in normal >>> search results, the index page or the navigation panel. >> >> -0 (close to -1) till you explain what is wrong with the solution >> below :) >> >> This could also be implemented using a special Tag (like: >> "xwiki:hidden" for example). >> >> I was going to say: "In general I think we need the ability to add >> generic metadata to a document.". however this already exists: it's >> called Objects! :) >> So I think instead of adding more and more fixed metadata we might >> instead want to use Objects. Either reuse the existing Tag or >> create a >> new Visibility class/objects. >> >> What are the cons of using Objects for this feature? >> > > At first sight I'd say that using objects (including current tag > feature) would lead to complex queries.
Yes but that's an API problem not a design one. If our API makes it complex to do queries on objects then we should fix it. Not do workarounds! Because if we do this then we acknowledge that the whole foundation of XWiki is bad (i.e. Class/Objects don't work). That would be a shame :) Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
