Thanks Denis,
for taking time to write this well explained, long email - really
appreciate it.
From all your given options I found plugin is the easiest(since I understand
the code very clearly) for me which is explained here -
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingPlugins
Let me work on it and I will let you know if I have any further questions.
Regards,
Viv
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Vivian,
>
> Are you sure that you want to interact with XWiki the old way (using
> plug-ins) ?
> Have you read
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents
> or probably better for your needs
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingMacros
> ?
>
> The context is an XWikiContext object that was the old way of keeping
> track of the current request, and it had to be passed around from
> method to method, everywhere in the code. It is progressively being
> replaced by an execution context managed by an execution manager
> component.
>
> In velocity, if you have programming rights, you may reach the
> XWikiContext using the velocity context this way:
>
> #set( $xcontext = $context.context )
>
> In a plugins, if you read carefully the
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingPlugins
> , you will notice that you have to extends XWikiDefaultPlugin and
> implements an init method to receive the context that you will
> passover to the constructor of your plugin API. This way, you will
> have access to the context in your plugin API as needed through the
> protected variable context that is initialized at construction time.
> The plugin API should be instantiated newly for each call to the
> getPluginApi method of your plugin. This way, the API represent the
> contextual instance of your plugin during a given request while the
> plugin itself is a singleton.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Gervalle
>
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 9:10, Vivian Richard wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much Arun for your help. Actually I have already
>> used velocity and was able to do whatever I needed through velocity.
>>
>> But my requirements changed and now I need to do exactly the
>> same thing is pure java. If you can help me in that will really be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> at the bottom of the following link
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingPlugins
>>
>> this line of code
>> com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument doc =
>> context.getWiki().getDocument("theSpace.theDoc", context); // any
>> document
>>
>> where this contest is coming from?
>>
>> If I have a class how do I get the context?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Arun Reddy <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Vivian Richard <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello devs,
>>>>
>>>> got a really newbie question and sitting on it for hours.
>>>> Your help will be appreciated. All I am trying to do is
>>>> - writing a Java class which has a method - when called
>>>> with doc name/ID will return the document title. That is all.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are looking for a method which returns document title of a
>>> particular
>>> doc name/ID , You can use velocity to achive that easily on the fly
>>> by
>>> putting the code inside your wiki pages itself.
>>>
>>> You can have a look at these :
>>> velocity scripting guide :
>>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting#HXWiki27sVelocityAPI
>>> XWiki API :
>>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/API
>>>
>>>
>>> $doc.getTitle() -> to get title of current doc.
>>> $xwiki.getDocument(java.lang.String web,java.lang.String
>>> fullname).getTitle()
>>>
>>> And many more methods, kindly check the API (link given above).
>>>
>>> The following code is what Itried:
>>>>
>>>> import com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext;
>>>> import com.xpn.xwiki.api.Api;
>>>> import com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki;
>>>> import com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> public class SampleService extends Api
>>>> {
>>>> public SampleService()
>>>> {
>>>> super(); /// I guess there should be XwikiContext
>>>> parameter in
>>>> the constructor
>>>> }
>>>> public String myDocTitle(String:name)
>>>> {
>>>> com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument docu =
>>>> context.getWiki().getDocument("theSpace.theDoc", context); // I
>>>> do
>>>> not where to get this context from
>>>> return docu.getTitle();
>>>> }
>>>> }
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Arun Reddy
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