On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 22:11, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 16:25, Asiri Rathnayake > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Devs, >> >> Currently DocumentNames generated by DocumentNameFactory contains the fully >> qualified document name at all times. And when they are serialized using >> DocumentNameSerializer, they result in the fully qualified document name >> string like "wiki:space.name". >> >> The problem with this is that new xwiki components using >> DocumentAccessBridge cannot use relative document names. For an example, >> "parent" field of a document cannot be set w.r.t the current wiki because >> the "wiki:" part is always appended by default (by the serializer). So we >> need a mechanism to specify "what kind of document name" we mean (relative >> or absolute). >> >> We can achive this in many ways: >> >> 1. Allow pasing a Serializer into methods which takes in a DocumentName. >> >> 2. Allow associating a Serilizer with a DocumentName. >> >> 3. Use Execution as a means of passing the preferred Serializer >> >> 4. Use a flag inside DocumentName (ABSOLUTE, WIKI_RELATIVE, SPACE_RELATIVE) >> which will be intepretted by the Serializer appropriately whenever a >> DocumentName is serialized. >> >> None of the above approaches are perfectly clean. But the fourth approach >> seems to make more sense. >> >> I'm +1 for 4. > > Not that there is a CompactDocumentNameSerializer > (DocumentNameSerializer componenet with hint "compact"). It serialize > the given DocumentName depending of the context: if the DocumentName > wiki is the name that the current wiki, it's not serialized, same for > space.
Actually it does not handle space yet as far as i can see in the code but it should. > > So there is already a way to serialize a relative document name by > making setting the context correctly. This serializer is used in > XWikiDocument#getUniqueLinkedPages for example. > >> >> Thanks. >> >> - Asiri >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
