On 03/05/2010 04:18 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > Discussing with Thomas today we think we need to use relative refs in > XWikiDocument for storing the Parent reference and in XObject > (BaseCollection to be precise) to store the XClass reference. > > The rationales are: > * the copy wiki use case: Imagine that you've set a relative parent > reference in the UI, you'll want that the copied document retains the > relativity > * have the same behavior as relative links in document contents. > * we had this feature and lost it during the reference refactoring in > XE 2.2. > > Regarding the implementation the idea is to: > * store relative reference using the EntityReference class and to > introduce a RelativeStringEntityReferenceResolver class.
+1 > * modify the XWikiDocument's javadoc to deprecate > setDocumentReference and all setXXX that change the reference since > XWikiDocument should be immutable re its reference (the storage impl > today doesn't support a XWikiDocument that has its reference that is > modified). +1. Too bad, deprecating a method so recently introduced... > Let me know if you see a problem. I'm starting to implement this. > > Thanks -Vincent > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
