On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 15:38, Jean-Vincent Drean
<[email protected]> wrote:
> -0 for a parameter for the same reasons as Thomas.
> +1 for a new action (/plain/ for example). IMHO If we discover a

Not sure about "plain" since the main use case that raised this issue
was about the comments content which is html. Unless you don't mean
"plain" as "plain/1.0" renderer syntax but i think we should use
something because it does not reflect the fact it's an kind of
sub/minor query.

Here is a list coming form the previous mails and some more i can
think of (feel free to add others):
* plain: -1
* viewinternal: +0
* internal: -1 (not related enough to view)
* service: -1 (there is no reason a service would not log the result in stats)
* minorview: +0.5
* subview: +0.5

> generic need of excluding actions from being logged at the global
> level then we could have an actions/stats mapping configured
> somewhere.
>
> JV.
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:26, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/25/09 10:11 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/24/09 7:07 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/23/2009 10:43 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I just found that we have a "ajax" URL parameter already. It's
>>>>>>>>> put in
>>>>>>>>> the context in XWikiAction so we could check for it in statistics.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WDYT about reusing it ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What is this URL param doing? The name doesn't sound very
>>>>>>>> explicit to
>>>>>>>> tell not to log stats...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently it prevents in some cases returning the full response. For
>>>>>>> example, the /cancel/ action normally redirects to view, which in
>>>>>>> turn
>>>>>>> renders the entire page. An AJAX request just wants to trigger the
>>>>>>> cancel action, and doesn't care for the response at all. Not going
>>>>>>> through the rendering engine is a good performance boost.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not used for every request done through AJAX, since it must be
>>>>>>> added manually.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the long run, I don't like too much this solution, since it forces
>>>>>> developers to be aware of that and to add the ajax=1 to all their
>>>>>> AJAX
>>>>>> requests. Using a different action for service like /service/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jerome
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sounds more natural, and easier to learn.
>>>>>
>>>>> Read:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Using a different action for service like /service/sounds more
>>>>> natural,
>>>>> and easier to learn.
>>>>
>>>> "service" doesn't mean much IMO  but +1 for a different action on the
>>>> longer run. Note that WCAG complains about URL with query string (for
>>>> readability reason) so this solves this problem too.
>>>
>>> Adding an action is not that difficult if everyone is agree to go the
>>> action way now...
>>
>> Answering again since we need to move on. My current feeling:
>>
>> * Using a new action or passing a parameter to identify a query that 
>> shouldn't be logged (through a URL parameter) sounds the same kind of 
>> complexity to me.
>> * That said I'm +0 for a new view action (I hope there are no other actions 
>> required though)
>> * I keep maintaining that the need to not log something should be 
>> independent of the action called and thus even if we had a new action we can 
>> also add a URL parameter to prevent stats logging. "logstats=0|1" sounds 
>> good to me. We could easily make the new view action set the parameter.
>> * Re the question on how the stats code will get access to that parameter, 
>> yes, it could be put in the context (it could be retrieved from the request 
>> URL but it' not a good idea to become dependent on the environment).
>> * I'd be +0 to reuse the ajax param too although in the longer run I'd 
>> prefer to introduce a "logstats" param since not wanting to log some stats 
>> shouldn't be related to ajax specifically. It's a more general use case.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>>> Jerome"
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think I'd prefer a more explicit param.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:04, Thomas Mortagne
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>    wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:36, Vincent Massol<[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:50, Vincent Massol<[email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Nov 18, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since we introduce document footer informations view
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> statistics
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> store several time for the same user view of a page.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4590
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The issue is that theses tabs are loaded asynchronously in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ajax
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make a call using view action.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here are some solutions:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1/ introduce a new action "viewinternal", "service" or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> else
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that would be a "view" action without UI and not taken into
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> account by
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> statistics (that register for "view" action events)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +0
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2/ pretty much the same thing that 1/ but based on a URL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> parameter
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is much better to me since:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> * Stats are a transersval concern, not related to the view
>>>>>>>>>>>>> action
>>>>>>>>>>>>> especially. I'm pretty sure we can imagine use cases where we
>>>>>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>>>>>> want to register stats for actions other than view
>>>>>>>>>>>>> * The way I'd like to implement the actions later on (xwiki-
>>>>>>>>>>>>> actions
>>>>>>>>>>>>> module) is to have action pipelines and this "saving stats"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> action
>>>>>>>>>>>>> will be implemented as a post-action that would be injected
>>>>>>>>>>>>> after the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> main actions. Thus only this post action will need to check
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> parameter which will be transparent to the other actions, thus
>>>>>>>>>>>>> providing a good separation of concern.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> So you want statistics module to go look at URL parameters ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I said the opposite actually: it's the action that should do
>>>>>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>>>>>> Right now (current code) we could just have the view action
>>>>>>>>>>> check
>>>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>>>> the param.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And do what, put something in the context ? The statistics module
>>>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>>> still receive a "view" action event. It has to check something.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> How would
>>>>>>>>>>>> you name this parameter ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Some proposals:
>>>>>>>>>>> - "stats=true|false" (or 0|1 to follow the current "tradition")
>>>>>>>>>>> - "logstats"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Also i really don't like that ajax calls use the standard view
>>>>>>>>>>>> action
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Can you explain? I don't see the problem.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "view" action is supposed to be a user view of a document, ajax
>>>>>>>>>> calls
>>>>>>>>>> are retrieving structured informations from a service located
>>>>>>>>>> in a
>>>>>>>>>> page most of the time so they have to explicitly tweak the URL to
>>>>>>>>>> remove the UI, indicate they want plain renderer... and so get
>>>>>>>>>> something that has nothing to do with what "view" action is
>>>>>>>>>> supposed
>>>>>>>>>> to be.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> so the "viewinternal" action is needed anyway IMO.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3/ use an additional AJAX request similar to a google
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> analytics
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> call
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to record statistics
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As i said in jira I'm against 3/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2/ seems too big for a URL parameter to me and it makes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> statistics
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> depends on URL parameters where 1/ fix the issue without
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> touching
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything in the statistics module
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> +1 for 1/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> +0 for 2/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -1 for 3/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thomas Mortagne
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