Hi Neils, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Asiri Rathnayake < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> The wiki macro bridge has been released with 2.0M2. ... >> >> If you come across any problems while you are at it, we can improve wiki >> macro bridge :) >> > > Thanks for reminding me about the Xwiki macro bridge. Looks great and is a > big improvement over how things were done previously. Your message was > timely as helped me answer one of my big questions about having groovy or > clojure macros available on virtual-wiki setup: > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WikiMacroTutorial > > - Wiki macro authors need to have programming rights > - Wiki macros can only be defined inside the main wiki, though they can > be used throughout a farm > > I wrote my first macro-bridge macro (see attachment > Main.TestMacroBridge.xar ) in groovy in preparation for my experiments with > scripting in Clojure. The hardest thing was finding out that the name of > "context" had changed to "xcontext" for groovy and other JSR-223 languages, > whereas velocity (and WikiMacroTutorial) uses "context". This has been > discussed on the lists ( http://markmail.org/message/o2trzrnv5xts6x6v ), > and the WikiMacroTutorial needs updating to reflect the final status & > naming-conventions. > > My macro is quite simple. but does a lot, taken from here: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-pg05199/index.html > Usage: {{weather_by_zip zip=92625 /}} > Just tested your macro. Great stuff!!! With a bit of styling (SSX) we could actually put your macro in http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/ I'll try to work on it if I get a chance. Thanks. - Asiri > > Code: > ............................... > Objects of type XWiki.WikiMacroClass WikiMacroClass 0: weather_by_zip > {{script language=groovy}} > def rss = new XmlSlurper().parseText((" > http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p="; + > xcontext.macro.params.zip).toURL().text) println rss.channel.title println > "Sunrise: ${rss.channel.astrono...@sunrise}" println "Sunset: > ${rss.channel.astrono...@sunset}" println "Currently:" println "\t" + > rss.channel.item.conditi...@date println "\t" + > rss.channel.item.conditi...@temp println "\t" + > rss.channel.item.conditi...@text {{/script}} > > Objects of type XWiki.WikiMacroParameterClass WikiMacroParameterClass 0: > zip > ............................... > > May be you can put it to test by trying to implement your chart macro ;) > > > It would be more useful to offer all-new > Exhibit<http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/> functionality > with tighter integration into the Xwiki back-end, e.g. > having document/space and other Xwiki "model" information abstractly > available to an Exhibit-based "view/controller" to provide a "faceted views" > presentation of Xwiki documents and contents. FYI, My existing Exhibit > integration with Xwiki demo: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents4 (source: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/download/Exhibit/Presidents4/Presidents4Pkg.xar) > > My main commitment right now is an experiment to see if I can get > JSR223-supported Clojure scripting in Xwiki. > This message didn't give me much hope of success right now ( > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/ad811b69d448e3db ) but I'll > give Clojure on Xwiki a try anyways, and revisit later if it's just a matter > of getting more solid JSR223 support for Clojure as development progresses. > > Niels > http://nielsmayer.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
