Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a POC about document types a while back. Some mockups are
> available [1]. Summary:
>
> - Introduce a new property in xwiki classes: class type. 3 different
> class types: document type, document meta, system. More below.
> - Make defaultViewSheet and defaultEditSheet properties (BaseClass)
> persistent.
> - New Document API methods : getViewSheet, getEditSheet. Those
> methods loop over documents objects and resolve the sheet to use.
> -- On the first object from a "document type" class (Users, Blog
> articles, etc) the sheet to use for this class is returned.
> -- Document meta / System classes (comments, tags, etc) never trigger
> the use of a sheet.
> - When viewing/editing a page getViewSheet/getEditSheet is called and
> the returned sheet is used.
> - If there's no object from a "document type" class in a document,
> "document meta" objects are displayed before or after the content
> (depending on a class property) with their custom viewSheet/editSheet
> or with the default sheet we provide (an improved version of what we
> currenlty have in the object editor).
>
> If we all agree that this is what we want to handle document types
> then I think the best would be to develop the first part ("document
> types" handling) during 1.9. If we can't develop this in the
> timeframe, adding viewSheet/editSheet properties to XWikiDocument does
> not conflict with the scenario above (they could be the first
> properties checked by Document#get*Sheet). The only issue I foresee is
> that it could make things look more complex when we'll have class
> types and everything. WDYT ?
+1, I reached the same conclusion, and I already started working on
this. If you also have some code, we should merge efforts.
> [1] :
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/OverhaulOfXWikiClassesAndObjectsManagement
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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