On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:29, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'm still working on the Model Reference domain. We've brainstormed > with Thomas and we'd like to propose replacing the current > ModelContext.getCurrentDocumentName() by > ModelContext.getCurrentEntityReference() (which returns an > EntityReference). > > The idea is that a URL could target a document but also a wiki only > (e.g the REST API odes that), or a given space only, or even an object > or a property. This would mean we would need to have > getCurrentDocumentReference() in addition to all the others: > getCurrentWikiReference(), getCurrentSpaceReference(). It would also > mean a lot of them would be set to null. Last it would mean different > ways to access the same information (e.g. > getCurrentDocumentReference.getWikiReference() vs > getCurrentWikiReference()).
Note that another point was that we need to make sure the current space is consistent with the current wiki. > > We would also add a EntityReference.extractReference(EntityType type) > method in order to make it easy to extract information from the a > reference path. > > For example to extract the Wiki from an entity reference: > > WikiReference wikiRef = > context.getCurrentEntityReference(EntityType.WIKI); > if (wikiRef != null) .... > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
